State crafts tough new rules to control scrap metal trade
Kenya Union of Scrap Metal Dealers Chairman Evanson Ng'ang'a during an interview at his yard. Scrap metal dealers will have to be licensed afresh under a new regulatory framework before the state considers lifting a ban on the trade.
Scrap metal dealers will have to be licensed afresh under a new regulatory framework before the state considers lifting a ban on the trade.
A meeting between the heads of various government agencies and representatives of scrap metal dealers Wednesday failed to unlock a moratorium placed in January by President Uhuru Kenyatta on the trade that has been widely blamed for vandalism of critical infrastructure.
