Detectives attached to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) on Wednesday morning nabbed over 2,000 expired diapers that were being repackaged in Kamukunji.
They also found 3 million pieces of banned plastic bags.
The crackdown on non-woven carrier bags by the National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) began on April 1 this year. The authority banned bags made of polypropylene (plastic) two years ago.
The diapers were being repackaged into bags labeled Double Vision.
The owner of the nabbed items has been identified as John Wachira Wang’ondu.
The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) officials and DCI officers have seized a consignment of 3.445 million pieces of banned plastic bags from a distributor along Temple Road, Nairobi.
“These bags we have already purchased them, we need to sell them so that we make back the money that we spent on them,” John Mwangi, a wholesaler, told Citizen TV during a past interview.