Detectives from the Serious Crimes Unit yesterday recovered over 1,700 bales of stolen Kenya seed company’s, hybrid Maize certified seeds, valued at over Sh7 Million from a private warehouse in Narok town. 
In what the serious crimes busters described as a well coordinated syndicate, involving a store supervisor at Narok’s Kenya Seed Company Branch, Brian Meja and two Narok-based unscrupulous traders of Asian origin only known as Yogesh and Gaurav,
they raided a facility leased by Meja a distance from Kenya Seed’s main godown, where the recovery was made. Detectives uncovered that the stolen high yielding seeds of variety 6213, are transported in two Probox vehicles daily and held at Meja’s store temporarily,
before being moved to establishments owned by the two fraudsters. Approximately, 40 bales each containing 12 packets of 2kilogrames per packet, have been supplied daily to the two unscrupulous traders since last December.
Yogesh who owns Shakti Farm products and Ololulunga Shiv Agrovets in Lulunga town has one other godown within Narok town that has currently stored over 10 tonnes of stolen seeds. His fellow suspect Gurav operates Sai Agrovet in Bomet.
Preliminary investigations indicate that in a bid to rake in more profits at the expense of poor farmers, the crooked traders package ordinary coloured maize grains, disguised as genuine high yielding, Kenya Seed’s variety 6213.
They then sell it exorbitantly to unsuspecting farmers, who end up with poor yields after planting and incurring high input costs trying to improve the crop. In this regard, samples of the recovered seeds will be subjected to forensic analysis with experts drawn from DCI Forensic
Lab, the Government Chemist, Kenya Bureau of Standards and other relevant government agencies to strengthen our case against the fraudsters. Further, detectives from the Serious Crimes Unit augmented by other relevant investigative units, will visit the Kenya Seed Company Limited
to among others ascertain how the genuine, certified seeds are graded and packaged as opposed to the ones packaged by the greed-driven enemies to Kenyan farmers. DCI thanks the member of the public who provided us with information regarding these fraudsters
via our Toll Free Line 0800722203, one week ago. As a result of fulfilling his patriotic duty, thousands of farmers have been saved from the jaws of fraudulent traders, out to profiteer from their sweat. #FichuakwaDCI, USIOGOPE!
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