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Youths offload maize sacks from a truck in Busia town. [Mumo Munuve, Standard]
Security officers impounded 22 trucks loaded with maize in Makutano town last week that had been sneaked in from Uganda.
Unscrupulous traders are using illegal routes along the Kenya-Uganda border to smuggle maize into the country despite a government directive issued last month to guard against imports of the grain on suspicion of high aflatoxin levels.
Tension was high in the town as policemen in riot gear kept vigil as traders charged, with some of them yelling insults at the officers who were guarding the vehicles that had been towed to Kapenguria Police Station.
Peter Maina is a trader in the northwestern Kenyan town of Kitale. Before the militia groups in South Sudan started to waylay and attack foreign drivers on Yei-Juba road, Maina had secured many orders to supply various goods to Juba.Due to the overflow of orders, he was forced to secure a loan from a microfinance agency to finance the business.
Now Maina is a frustrated man after cargo transportation to South Sudan was suspended following escalating insecurity since the beginning of April.”The business was going on smoothly until April 1 when attacks against Kenyan drivers intensified. I have been unable to deliver the goods to my clients in Juba after transporters withdrew services,” Maina told Xinhua during an interview on Thursday.He said that he had already run into trouble with his creditor after failing to repay back the loan he had borrowed to support the expansion of his transport business. “I was expected to repay back the money this week but I am yet to deliver the c
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