When transacting land/buildings/vehicles etc, the purchaser and the seller must provide their KRA PIN details. Does KRA not flag/query such transactions?
Does it really have to take an alarm from a foreign country to wake us up?
Here we are, prepared to extradite our citizens to face justice in foreign countries, but we lack the strength to bring foreigners back to Kenya to face justice?
See next tweets for links to show how IMPOTENT we are in this regard...
[THREAD] So, there's a syndicate of crooks in #Kenya who have been cloning vehicle registration plates, and using random vehicles to commit crimes.
A few months ago, i had tweeted about being paid a visit at my place of business by two smartly dressed plain-clothes police officers and a Chinese national.
They said that they had "evidence" that a vehicle registered to me was involved in a house-breaking in Kilimani.
By law you can't even trade in mbuzi or kuku if you don't have the relevant health permits. The system is broken. We're shouting about sugar but we don't even know for sure where the meat we eat comes from unless we ask to see a document.
Which means that this fool was either forging health certificates, or his customers weren't even bothered to ask for the certificates. Also, the health/veterinary dept guys probably weren't inspecting the samosa guys.
It is good practice to keep records of meat purchases and to ensure that your supplier has the required health clearance. Also, everybody handling meat is supposed to have a food handlers permit. Bulk purchases have to be accompanied by a transport permit.
Red tape. Need to launch a product? You will wait months for the standards authority to certify your products. That is IF they have a documented standard for the product you intend to launch.