We must inject integrity into the 'labyrinth' of importing vehicles

Motor vehicles being offloaded from a ship at the port of Mombasa. [Gideon Maundu, Standard]

A labyrinth is a complicated irregular network of passages or paths in which it is difficult to find one's way. Thousands of Kenyans who have imported cars from Japan and other nations would agree that the process is indeed a labyrinth.

I first experienced this labyrinth 30 years ago when I bumped into an opportunity to import cars from Japan. In 1994 while on a business trip in Tokyo, I met Chandra Kumar, a Pakistani national who ran a car business known as KSK Corporation.