MINISTER of State in VicePresident\u2019s Office (Union and Environment), Mussa Zungu has warned traders who continue to import banned plastic carriers from neighbouring countries that they will face stern legal measures.<\/p>\n
He said the dishonest traders will be arrested and charged so as to stop the bad practice.<\/p>\n
He said the government is aware of \u2018dirty game\u2019 which involves the importation of banned plastic bags.<\/p>\n
He said the banned materials are imported from neighbouring countries.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have discovered in our investigation that some dishonest traders in neighbouring countries are colluding with local traders to bring in banned materials, I would like to sound a warning that we are going to arrest them and serious legal measures will be taken against them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
According to the Minister, most of the illegal imported products are also substandard and that they are dangerous to environment.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need carriers that are approved for use in our country, failure to comply, we will ask the investor to allocate his fund to another area,\u201d said Mr Zungu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MINISTER of State in VicePresident\u2019s Office (Union and Environment), Mussa Zungu has warned traders who continue to import banned plastic carriers from neighbouring countries that they will face stern legal measures. He said the dishonest traders will be arrested and charged so as to stop the bad practice. He said the government is aware of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":3662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,8],"tags":[2034,2035],"class_list":["post-3665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-homepage-english","tag-mussa-zungu","tag-plastic-bags"],"yoast_head":"\n