Criminals are flooding the Kenyan market with counterfeit products as well as illicit alcohol, tobacco and medicines in a trade that is worth KSh 826 billion a year.

By evading the payment of due taxes, these criminals loot hard-working citizens of KSh 419 million every single day, rob them of jobs and destroy legitimate businesses.

Their products are unregulated and often lethal. They use sophisticated methods such as ghost exporting, illicit flows and trade misinvoicing to avoid detection from authorities.

Their industrial-scale tax crime has turned Kenya into the largest market in East Africa for counterfeit goods and contraband.

Our country is being exploited by foreign criminal and terror enterprises, who, along with domestic threats, see Kenya’s superior infrastructure and hard-won prosperity as something to be taken advantage of.

TO FIGHT THIS SCOURGE AND BUILD A BETTER AND SAFER KENYA, STOP CRIME KENYA PLEDGES TO ENFORCE THIS THREE-POINT PLAN...

1. Raise awareness of counterfeit menace
2. Demand our porous borders are made secure
3. Campaign for jailing of tax criminals

Illicit trade directly harms the Kenyan people. Every shilling funnelled into the shadow economy deprives hard-working Kenyans of funds required for their schools, housing, medical care and basic safety.

Organised syndicates dealing in illicit trade use their profits to expand their networks and fund other corrupt enterprises, including drug-dealing, prostitution, racketeering and human trafficking.

Even more alarming, illicit trafficking is also an essential revenue stream for the nexus of terror groups operating throughout the East and Central African regions.

Enough is enough. It’s time to take back control. It’s time to #StopCrime