BY NT REPORTER.
At least 30 senior officials of the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) and Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) have been charged over the importation of poisoned sugar and other contraband goods.
Kiprono Cole Bullut and Dorothy Wanja are accused that on between 15th May and 7th June in Mombasa being the chief manager container freight station, jointly with others not before court connived to release a consignment of substandard adult diapers to meet the specified quality standard.
Prosecution further alleged that Lawrence Michumbu and Daniel Kimonge being persons employed in the public service, jointly others not before court, willfully disobeyed the provision of standard Act released to the public consignment of substandard adult diapers vide entry which did not meat specified quality standard.
The court further heard that, on 7 of June this year at CNT Container freight station at Mombasa being the Kenya Bureau of Standards Daniel Kamonge Inspector at container freight station Kilindini port , in abuse of authority of your office unlawfully released substandard adult diapers which did not meet the specified quality standard.
Kiprono Cole Bullut, Chief Manager Containers Freight Stations and David Ngugi Mbogori, Customs Head Verification Officer further faced four counts of abuse of office and neglect of duty.
They are alleged to have allowed the Thai rice which did not meet the standards set by the East African Standard for milled rice.
The accused persons are charged alongside KEBS official Peter Nyanjui Ndungu and eight others and are alleged to have committed the offenses on 27th December 2017 within Mombasa County.
The accused were arraigned before Nairobi Chief Magistrate Francis Andayi where they criminal charge and released on cash bail of sh300,000.
The officials were arrested over the weekend by detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) in an ongoing probe into the importation of contraband goods.
KRA officials are also in detention and are being interrogated for willingly permitting the release into the market of a consignment of substandard goods.
