Detectives seize several bags packed with stones and animal waste as fertilizer
Stones, and animal waste (goats and sheep waste) packed as fertilizer seized by the police in Baringo
Stones, and animal waste (goats and sheep waste) packed as fertilizer seized by the police in Baringo.
Police have seized several bags of fake fertilizer in a crackdown on the sale and supply of fake fertilizer in Koibatek, Baringo County.
Detectives handling the matter said they realized some of the fertilizer in 34 bags had stones, fake granules, and sheep and goat wastes.
Some of the samples brought to the DCI offices at Koibatek had granules resembling cattle licking salt and black stones and others had goat or sheep fur, police said.
The officers in Eldàma Ravine on Friday, March 22 received reports from two members of the public from Poror Village of Poror/ Arama Location within Koibatek Sub County that on different dates in March 2024, each of them bought the subsidized fertilizer from National Cereals and Produce Board Depot at Eldama Ravine totaling 34 bags of NPK fertilizer.
The complainants said on opening the bags ready for planting, he realized it was not real fertilizer.
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The Sub County Security committee inspected the bags brought and informed the management of NCPB Koibatek to recall all 2,650 bags already supplied to farmers so far.
Efforts to recall the bags were ongoing amid outcry some had already used the fake products.
This comes at a time when farmers from various parts of the country are facing long queues at different depots in search of government-subsidized fertilizer, amidst reported shortages of the commodity in the region.
President William Ruto on Wednesday warned manufacturers and distributors of fake farm inputs saying those found culpable will face the ‘music they deserve’.
He spoke amid a public outcry over alleged fake fertilizers and uncertified crop seeds being distributed in the market.
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