Scrap metal dealers in the country have raised concerns over what they claim is an increase in imported metals, stating it has severely affected their businesses and disrupted the prices.
The traders who also decried high taxes are calling on the Ministry of Trade to intervene and protect local businesses.
Led by Evans Ng'ang'a, Scrap Metal Dealers Association (SMDA) chairman, the traders are appealing to the government to stop these imports and stabilise the market, which they reveal is crushing. ''Currently, as we are speaking, we have 25,000 metric tonnes of steel bars that have landed in Mombasa, which is coming to flood the market,'' Ng'ang'a revealed.
A pile of scrap metals at a garage in Kenya, October 17, 2016.
