With the existence of very many powerful brains, the market has been flooded with all sorts of business ideas including the most scrupulous ones.
As a result,the Anti-counterfeit Agency(ACA) has warned citizens over fake expensive gadgets they may be owning in their homes without knowledge.
ACA’s deputy director enforcement and legal services, Johnson Adera said on Tuesday that the influx of fake TV sets in the market was posing a major challenge.
He cautioned that many TV sets that were being packaged and passed off as highly valued trademarks, were actually assembled using bogus parts.
Mr Adera warned Kenyans to be cautious when buying TV sets and other electronic items including speakers and car stereos.
He said fakes were being passed off as products by highly regarded brands. Mr Adera, who said most of the TV sets had genuine-looking logos, called upon Kenyans who suspect the integrity of their TV sets to report to the agency.
“We have to be vigilant at all times because counterfeiters are creative,” he said.
Mr Adera was speaking at a ceremony where ACA, the body tasked with detection of counterfeits, was being feted for Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement by Dolby Laboratories in Nairobi on Tuesday.