Police on Friday evening, seized over 600 bags of contraband sugar at a shop in Matuu town, Machakos County.
The consignment was recovered from Makutano Stores in Matuu market, Yatta Sub-county.
Machakos county commissioner Matilda Sakwa said police raided the store and nabbed the illicit goods following a tip-off from members of the public.
“We also found two lorries that were used to transport the consignment to the shop. They have been impounded at Matuu Police station,” Sakwa said.
Officers from Kenya Bureau of Standards (KeBS) are already in the scene.
Sakwa said the government will intensify crackdown in the area to get rid of unscrupulous traders who have amassed such illegal goods.
On Tuesday, detectives seized more than 1000 bags of contraband sugar and a mass scale packaging machine worth Sh25 million at a warehouse in Ruiru, Kiambu County.
This comes at a time when the country is seemingly under control of hidden 'businessmen' who import illegal goods in the country through porous borders.
“I am not under any illusion that we are engaged in a very serious war. A war that could mean anything; it could mean even the lives of these officers and some of us,” Matiangi told reporters when the Directorate of Criminal Investigations boss George Kinoti displayed tonnes of the sugar imported illegally from Brazil earlier this week.