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'Mercury' sugar comes back to haunt Kenyans, five years later

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From left: Former DCI boss George Kinoti, Deputy Public Health Commissioner Wanyama Musiambo and former IG Joseph Boinnet inspect over 2,000 bags of contraband sugar impounded in a warehouse in Eastleigh, Nairobi on June 5, 2018. [File, Standard]

Questions abound as to why about one million kilogrammes of sugar condemned and earmarked for destruction had not been destroyed 5 years later.

The sugar, which the Kenya Bureau of Standards (Kebs) had deemed unfit for human consumption in 2018 on claims it contained mercury, has now been released to the market irregularly and there are fears that it could cause heath complications.

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