Kenya: Trader Fined for Selling Sand to Sugar Customers

6 February 2013

A man who sold a shopkeeper six sacks of sugar containing sand was yesterday fined Sh100, 000 by a Mombasa court. Juma Abdul pleaded guilty to charges of obtaining Sh13,000 by false pretences from Ali Bakari on January 28 at Polisi area, Likoni.

Juma is alleged to have approached the complainant at his shop and said he wanted to travel upcountry but had no money and offered to sell him six bags.

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