The Kenya Customs Authority has given importers deadlines until this month to pay taxes on their products before they are auctioned off or damaged, the Business Daily website reports.
The products include sexually explicit material, drones that are "packed" at the airport in Nairobi's main airport, the report said.
"Some passengers are unaware of the ban on products such as shisha and sexually explicit equipment. Unmanned aircraft are firearms," Lilian Nyawanda, Commissioner of Customs and Border Control at the Kenya Revenue Authority, told the website. that of information.
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He said if the products were not taken by September 30, they would be auctioned off or destroyed.
"Deposits have a place due to the slow rate at which permits are issued for regulated goods such as drones and other goods that are destroyed according to the law themselves if they do not pay the permits imposed on time," Ms. Nyawanda said.
Importers of drones, which have become popular for film, mapping, and agriculture, have to pay a fee of $ 30.
