Adan Mohamed Nooru

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: Three, what is the Government doing to stop illegal trade? To ensure there is no illegal importation of sugar, the Government has put in place the following measures:- view
• 23 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: (a) Enhancing the surveillance and investigation activities across the country, including the establishment of permanent inter-agency enforcement units on sugar trade to increase scrutiny on the cross border trade and setting up of border patrols to stop sugar smuggling. Consultations between Kenya Ports Authority (KPA), Public Health, Kenya Sugar Board (KSB), the Police and Kenya Revenue Authority are at an advanced stage with the formal working framework targeted for the eradication of the same. view
• 23 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: (b) A 100 per cent verification of sugar imports through our formal entry points to net sugar entries into the market, which is concealed as other low value commodities such as rice, pasta or fertilizers. Those measures have been put in place. view
• 23 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: (c) Millers shift to direct sales to retail outlets on terms that will benefit flow-out to all players along the value chain, including consumers. This will help break existing sugar cartels. view
• 23 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: (d) Strengthening of laws governing the regulations of sugar imports and exports to provide for higher accountability standards for the re-packaged sugar and for deterrent penalties of offenders. The new regulations will demand proper labeling for the purpose of traceability, upstream and downstream the value chain. view
• 23 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: (e) Sugar being classified as restricted import under the East African Custom Management Act and illegal sugar be prohibited and destroyed and owners/agents prosecuted as opposed to the present administrative corrective measures such as imposition of penalties and collection of taxes for the sugar being impounded. That illegal sugar is released to the importers or allowed back to the market by way of persisting public auctions by KRA. That should stop forthwith. (f) Prosecution of offenders. view
• 23 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: (g) Seizure and destruction of impounded sugar consignment and the blacklisting of offenders. view
• 23 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: (h) The intensive due-diligence of all applicants and up-scaled quality checks on the documents. view
• 23 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. view
• 23 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, they are many but I will try to address as many as possible. There are two issues. There is the smuggling of sugar and the most critical one is what measures have been put in place to stop the excess sugar in this country. First and foremost, the importation of sugar arises out of the shortage of local production in this country. So, there is a shortage of over 230 metric tonnes for the local consumption that the local factories cannot meet. That warrants the Kenya Sugar Board (KSB), which is the regulatory body, to authorize the ... view