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KRA To Destroy Unclaimed Goods In Warehouses

Post by : Hillary Musyoki

Kenya Revenue Authority’s Customs and Boarder Control Department will on May 22 destroy a variety of imported goods, including sex toys and artificial male organs that have yet to be collected from warehouses located in Eldoret, Nakuru, Lodwar, Lokichoggio and Suam.

This decision comes after KRA issued a 30-day ultimatum to the owners of products via a gazette notice dated April 20,2023.

“Notice is given that unless the under-mentioned goods are entered and removed from the custody of the Customs Warehouse Keeper, within 30 days of this notice, they will e treated as abandoned and will be disposed of by destruction or otherwise disposed of in such a manner as the Commissioner may direct on 22nd May 2022,”read the gazette notice.

An assortment of alcoholic drinks, shisha products, bulbs, bedsheets and plant seed, laying at the Eldoret warehouse, will not be spared according to KRA.

Bags of sugar, crates of beer and kilograms of powered milk held at the Lodwar warehouse will also be destroyed.

Additionally, thousands of artificial male organs, sex toys, sex cremes and sprays, used inner garments, military uniforms and toy guns held at the Nakuru warehouse will also meet the same fate similar to the other products in other warehouses.

In Lodwar’s custom’s warehouse, 100 cartons of Supermatch cigarettes, 18 empty crates of empty senator beer, a Toyota Hilux, a Mitsubishi Colt and radio communication equipment will also be destroyed according to the taxman.

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