Police nabbed over 2131 expired diapers and 3 million pieces of banned plastic bags in Kamukunji on Wednesday.
The plastic bags and expired diapers were packaged in bags labelled Double Vision. Police managed to identify the owner as one John Wachira Wang’ondu.
On April 1, 2019, the National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) began a crackdown on non-woven carrier bags after the authority banned bags made of polypropylene (plastic) two years ago.
Since the ban began, consumers have been complaining of the high cost of alternative bags in the market which are said to be as costly as Ksh50-70 per bag.
“These bags we have already purchased them, we need to sell them so that we make back the money that we spent on them,” John Mwangi, a wholesaler, told Citizen TV during a past interview.
This is not the first time expired diapers have been seized in police crackdowns.
On November 2018, Police raided a go down along Mombasa Road in Nairobi nabbed employees of the Mlolongo go-down repackaging and rebranding the diapers to hide the real expiry dates.
After realising they were busted, they tried to conceal the crime.
The DCI boss George Kinoti then directed Parklands DCIO David Chebii to take over the probe.
Kinoti noted that the diapers were being repackaged so that buyers could not find out that they had expired terming their actions as harmful to innocent children.
Six suspects were arrested during the operation.
