Kirinyaga: Police impound lorry ferrying 1,000 cartons of alcohol with suspected counterfeit stamps

Police officers in Kirinyaga County have impounded a lorry ferrying alcohol with suspected counterfeit stamps at Kagio.

The truck, which was reportedly headed to Nairobi from Embu, was towed to Kagio Police Station with the alcohol bottles packed in cartons.

The police then called officers from the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) based in Nyeri, who spent the better part of Friday evening probing the contents of the lorry.

Kirinyaga Police Commander Mathew Mang’ira confirmed the incident noting that the contents of the lorry were later transported to Nyeri and subjected to further verification in order to ascertain the authenticity of the stamps and the safety of the content.

The lorry was said to have been ferrying about 1,000 cartons, each containing 20 bottles of alcohol labeled ‘Power.’

This comes in the wake of a stern warning by the government to companies and individuals devising schemes to evade taxes.

President William Ruto in mid-October said his administration would launch a crack-down in pursuit of tax-evaders in bid to rejuvenate the country’s ailing economy which has lost a considerable part of its revenue to tax cheats.