The Kenya Defence Forces are in the spotlight again over the disappearance of illegal sugar seized by KRA.
The Agriculture Food and Fisheries Authority says it cannot trace 370 bags of contraband sugar, which was confiscated and stored at the Mandera military base. It says its officials assigned to destroy the sugar have been denied entry to military base where the commodity was stored, according to a Business Daily report.
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KDF, however, denies knowledge of the consignment, as the government seeks to dismantle a decades-old sugar smuggling cartel that is funding Somali militants waging war on Kenya.
“After we got the information on this contraband sugar, we sought to ascertain the volumes and plan how we were going to destroy the consignment, but KDF is yet to allow us to see it,” said Adan Ghure, the AFFA official in charge of sugar in Mandera.
When contacted, KDF spokesperson David Obonyo told the Business Daily that the Army does not deal in contraband goods and denied that the consignment was in their possession.
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