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KRA ordered to allow off-loading of sugar worth Sh2.6 billion at Mombasa port

Dockworkers off-loading sugar at the port of Mombasa, May 17, 2017. [PHOTO BY GIDEON MAUNDU/STANDARD]

The Kenya Revenue Authority has been ordered to allow an importer to offload 800,000 bags of duty-free sugar worth Sh2.6 billion from a ship that docked at the port of Mombasa last month.

Justice Erick Ogola ordered the sugar aboard MV Iron Lady ship from Brazil be offloaded and stored at JB Maina private warehouse after he rejected an application by KRA to have offloading of the sugar suspended.

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