Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria has asked the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji to go for the big fish in the fight against contraband sugar and products.
Kuria argued that arresting small people will not stop the importation of contraband sugar.Speaking to journalists in Kiambu Town on Saturday, the MP said that importation of counterfeit products is a serious issue that the government must urgently deal with."We want to see big people who are behind the importation of poisonous sugar arrested," the MP said.Kuria said that importers of illegal products should be treated as murderers.He asked the police and the DPP not to spare anyone linked to the contraband sugar being seized across the country.On Friday, Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) Managing Director (MD) Charles Ongwae and other officials including quality assurance and inspection director, Mr Eric Chesire, and head of the inspection department, Mr Eric Ochieng were arrested in connection to the contraband sugar.Ongwae had on Thursday told the National Assembly Committee on Trade and Industry that tests on impounded sugar samples had found high levels of copper.He, however, noted that no traces of mercury were found as earlier reported by Interior CS Fred Matiang’i.The KEBS officials will be arraigned and charged in court on Monday.