POLITICIANS and their cronies are taking advantage of an import ban on selected products meant to allow local manufacturers to recover to ship into the country the banned merchandise, which sources said were also evading duty payment.
The move has meant that importers, who are bringing the products into the country under government-issued licences, are making huge profits from domestic sales.
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