In August 2014, just a year after taking power, President Uhuru Kenyatta said Kenyans returning from overseas with left-hand-drive vehicles would be allowed to bring in right-hand-drive models duty-free.
According to the Kenya Standard Code of Practice for Inspection of Road Vehicles administered by the Kenya Bureau of Standards, (Kebs), vehicles destined for Kenya should be less than eight years old from the year of first registration.
Several Kenyans who claimed the directive had not been acted on allege that Treasury officials and Kenya Revenue Authority, (KRA) have denied knowledge of the initiative and were barring returnees from bringing in cars into the country under the programme.
A presidential directive easing importation of cars by the diaspora is being implemented, the National Treasury has said.
But a section of Kenyans living in the US, who have sought to take advantage of the duty waiver, claim that the directive had been ignored.
