The Kenya Revenue Authority’s (KRA) Customs and Border Control Department will on May 22 dispose of an assortment of imported goods, including sex toys and artificial male organs that have yet to be collected from warehouses in Eldoret, Nakuru, Lodwar, Lokichoggio and Suam.
This is after KRA issued a 30-day ultimatum to the products’ owners to collect the said goods via a gazette notice dated April 20, 2023.
“Notice is given that unless the under-mentioned goods are entered and removed from the custody of the Customs Warehouse Keeper, within 30 days of this notice, they will be treated as abandoned and will be disposed of by destruction or otherwise disposed of in such manner as the Commissioner may direct on 22nd May 2022,” reads the gazette notice.
A variety of alcoholic drinks, shisha products, bulbs, bed sheets and plant seeds, laying at the Eldoret warehouse, will not be spared according to the taxman.
Hundreds of bags of sugar alongside crates of beer and kilograms of powdered milk held at the Lodwar customs warehouse will also be thrown away.
Similarly, thousands of artificial male organs, sex toys, sex creams and sprays, used inner garments, military uniforms and toy guns being held at the Nakuru warehouse will be disposed of on the aforementioned date.
At Lodwar’s customs warehouse, 100 cartons of Supermatch cigarettes, 18 empty crates of Senator beer, a Toyota Hilux, a Mitsubishi Colt and radio communication equipment will correspondingly be destroyed according to KRA.
26 bags of sugar, lying at the Suam go-down, will similarly be discarded.