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Title : How fake liquor is smuggled into Kenya from Uganda
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Source : Daily Nation
Year : 2018
Link : https://www.nation.co.ke/news/How-traders-sneak-in-illicit-liquor-through-Uganda-border/1056-4829924-okhr6o/index.html
Country : Uganda
Commodity: AB Alcoholic Beverages-All
Abstract: On May 30, 2018, police in Eldoret, Uasin Gishu County, arrested three men suspected to have been part of a group selling illicit brews in Munyaka estate and its environs. This is after security officers netted more than 300 sachets of illicit liquor-simba waragi- believed to have been smuggled from Uganda. The consignment was impounded at a house in the estate. Police also impounded a motorbike used to supply the liquor.