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Seized sugar not fit for consumption, says CS Matiang’i

Interior CS Fred Matiangi when he appeared before the National Assembly Agriculture and Trade Joint Committees on contraband sugar with mercury at County Hall, Nairobi on Thursday 28/06/2018. [Boniface Okendo,Standard]

Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i has clarified that tested sugar samples did not contain mercury but other metallic elements.

Matiang’i said he only used the term ‘mercury’ as a precautionary measure to the public.

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