Barely three days after Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa issued a directive banning export of food crops, the level of defiance among farmers and traders has remained astonishingly high as police in Kilimanjaro had, by yesterday, seized at least 104 trucks smuggling maize into neighbouring Kenya.
And, this at a time when the government has reiterated that the ban on cereal exports remains intact and that whoever defies it would face the music.
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