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Originally published by The Standard BusinessSeptember 23, 2025
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How trade agency cooked up plan to dish out rice tender

The Kenya National Trading Corporation is embroiled in controversy over the abrupt revocation of a tender for the duty-free importation of 250,000 metric tonnes of rice. ..
✨ Key Highlights
The Kenya National Trading Corporation (KNTC) is facing fresh controversy regarding the importation of essential commodities, specifically a rice importation tender. This follows scrutiny by the parliamentary Committee on Trade, Industry and Cooperative.
- The controversy centers around how KNTC "cooked up a plan" to dish out a rice importation tender.
- The parliamentary Committee on Trade, Industry and Cooperative inspected a shipment of rice at KNTC warehouses in Mombasa on April 5, 2023.
- The article suggests impropriety in the tendering process for rice imports overseen by KNTC.
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