Commissioner Benson Korongo and other official destroying the fake brews(photo/Grace Mwende)
The Kenyan economy is losing Sh40 million every month through the fight of counterfeit illicit brews.
The crackdown has been going on for more than 5 months has seen over 500 hundred thousand of fake illicit brews both locally produced and imported collected.
The fake products will be destroyed in Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu counties.
A rollout of enhanced market surveillance through recruitment of additional officers and provision of necessary equipment will be targeting manufactures and importers of illicit products and will help in the fight against illicit brews.
“We want to assure Kenyans that we are working together with other organization to ensure that there is a safe environment to do business in this country” said Mr Benson Korongo Commissioner for Domestic Taxes, Kenya Revenue Authority, during the destruction of the fake products at Dandora Water Treatment in Ruai, Nairobi.
He also said that they are aiming at tightening export and import controls through use of Regional Electronic Cargo Tracking System on export and transit goods, Restricting exports of neutral spirit to registered regional importers and Restriction importation of excisable goods to licensed local manufactures and registered importers.
The Use of excisable Goods Management System will monitor production and provide visibility of illicit products in the market.
The collected commodities were lacking requisite stamps from the tax collector and the Kenya Bureau of Standards.