Sugar tops list of goods most smuggled into Kenya

The busy Namanga border town between Kenya and Tanzania. Photo/ANTHONY KAMAU

Sugar accounts for nearly half of the goods smuggled across Kenya’s porous border points, a new report shows, turning the focus on illicit trading of the sweetener.

National Crime Research Centre data shows that 48 per cent of all incidents of smuggling involved sugar with about 789 cases reported over the last year.

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