Three businessmen were charged on Monday with repackaging and selling substandard sugar in Eastleigh, Nairobi.
Dahir Ahmed, Mohammed Dahir and Ahmed Sheikh faced Milimani Senior Principal Magistrate Martha Mutuku.
The court heard that on June 4 at Diamond Wholesalers stores in Eastleigh, they and their accomplices offered 922 50-kg bags of substandard white sugar for sale. The commodity’s value was placed at Sh3,070,260.
The three were also accused of selling 204 50-kg bags of substandard brown sugar, valued at Sh679,000, and using the KEBS standardisation mark without a permit.
The prosecution said they also offered the product for sale under poor hygenic conditions.
The last count stated that the three and others not before court were also found selling 648 20-litre jerricans of premium safari cooking oil valued at Sh1,555,2000.
