Naema Celestine 
(KEBS) Kenya Bureau of Standards declared 125,000 metric tonnes of edible oil imported by the government unfit for human consumption .The oil said to be imported from Malaysia is expected to be destroyed before getting to the local market and cause more damage.
Additionally, President William Ruto’s administration imported this cooking oil that is tax free through the Kenya National Trading Corporation (KNTC), With the ambition of balancing prices Four of the companies that imported goods worth KSh 6 billion have been linked to the Kenya Kwanza government.
However, it emerged that the firms contracted by the Kenya National Trading Corporation (KNTC) to import the oil have links with the Kenya Kwanza administration. No ember this year, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) wrote to the registry of companies demanding details of the companies involved in the import scheme.
The standard body noted that the consignments whose numbers were attached ,did not have the required content rate of Insoluble Impurities and Vitamin A. It further explained that fat content exceeded the required amount by 0.47% to read 99.97 than the normal rate of 99.5.
The acid value of the edible oils had an amount of potassium hydroxide at 0.12 milligrams as opposed to the standard of 0.2 Required by KEBS
