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How crafty traders use children and disabled to evade tax at the borders

People in wheelchairs and children wait to offload a lorry with goods at Noman’s land in Busia border. [Jenipher Wachie, Standard]

At about 3am, the whistling of a boy on his way to Busia’s Sofia market disturbs the silence of a breaking dawn.

“I have done this business for two years. Nobody can harm me,” says the 12-year-old.

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