Day: December 13, 2023

Correspondence by Isaiah Okoche In the smuggling underbelly, a consolidator is a next-level economic saboteur partly because they are not easy to detect but also because, if untamed, they can become a nuisance to fair traders. Consolidators use porous points of the border and the art of getting something into the country in small rations. …

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Correspondence by Peter Sebyoto In the wee hours of Sunday morning, the Karuma Checkpoint Enforcement team’s antenna picked up intel about a suspicious Box Body Fuso truck registration number UBD 230F full of contraband snaking its way through Olwiyo trading center approximately 50 km away from Karuma. The checkpoint is among the most strategic ones …

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