The Kenya Revenue Authority’s Customs Department has come under pressure after it emerged that some of the consignments it allowed into the country contained undervalued tyres from China, prompting loss of billions of shillings.
A document comparing custom entries seen by the Business Daily shows that imports of some tyres were grossly undervalued, a leakage that insiders estimate could cost the country up Sh9 billion a year in revenue losses, or between Sh250 million and Sh500 million every month.
