KEBS is not just looking the other way. From my own personal interaction with them, they are simply dysfunctional or maybe they don't have clear guidelines on what their operations should be like. However, we cannot entirely blame them for the proliferation of substandard merchandise into this country. Several agencies are involved and fat cats can easily circumvent (if not arm-twist) KEBS. We all know this.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Nyagitari Bosire <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nyagitari@gmail.com" target="_blank">nyagitari@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p>The switching off of the fake phones is enough indictment of the inability or lack of willingness in executing their mandate. Question though should be, in how many other areas is KeBS looking the other way?</p>
<p>Nyaggs</p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Oct 2, 2012 11:56 AM, "robert yawe" <<a href="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div>
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<div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">Hi,<br><br>We all wish the headline in tomorrows paper would be "KeBS to refund fake owners" as to the best of my knowledge they are mandated and funded by the tax payer to make sure that the items that come into the country meet certain required usage and safety standards.<br>
<br>Evert time I import IT items I am charged a fee for KeBS certification what do they do with the money collected if millions of fake (no IMEI numbers) mobile phones, many of which where shipped in container loads, passed right under their nooses.<br>
<br>As with most issues we have a tendency of barking up the wrong tree, suing CCK is dealing with a symptom instead of dealing with the core problem which is a standards body that does no work, its time we re-outsourced the function.<br>
<br>Regards<br> <br><div>Robert Yawe<br>KAY System Technologies
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