ISS TODAY: Kenya’s dry port expansion could bring more illicit profiteering

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ISS TODAY: Kenya’s dry port expansion could bring more illicit profiteering By Deo Gumba for ISS TODAY

The government also plans to open inland container depots or dry ports in the hinterland towns of Naivasha, Taita Taveta and Kisumu. Neighbouring countries also have inland depots in place.

riddled with corruption and organised crime. Unless strict controls around them are enforced, they will bring these problems inland with them. Daniel Nzeki, a freight station owner and chairperson of the Container Freight Stations Association of Kenya, has a different view. He says freight station facilities would never be used for underhand, fraudulent activity.

This helps cover up the malpractice, smuggling and corruption the study associates with compromised customs officials and agents of some private dry ports. These actors exploit “profitable inefficiencies in container storage” to circumvent state control with the help of compromised customs officials.

 

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