When you let a vice grow deep roots

[upepo]

Chaos Erupts on Luthuli Avenue as Electronics Traders Clash with Anti-Counterfeit Officers

Earlier today, chaos erupted along Luthuli Avenue as tensions escalated between electronics traders and Anti-Counterfeit Officers. The scene quickly turned chaotic and necessitated police intervention to restore order. Reports suggest that the Anti-Counterfeit Squad were in search of specific electronic brands, including JBL, Nexo and Electro-Voice.

 

[Pseudonyms]

The vice here is the thievery of the anticounterfeit scoundrels.

And they're serious extortionist thieves.

They come to your shop with armed policemen (never women) and claim you're selling counterfeit products of some brand, say JBL. They do not care to look at any documents proving you bought them from authorised dealers outside or within the country. They confisicate your whole inventory and start extorting you.

If you do not part with the obscene amounts they're demanding, they disappear with your goods.

If you demand to be taken to court, they produce witnesses and footage of them raiding your shop, and plant phony exhibits claiming to be the captured counterfeits. You lose. You can never win with these pigs.

Then they wait for you to restock again and they pounce again.

So today the traders have reached the end of their tether.

 

[Okiya]

The vice here is the thievery of the anticounterfeit scoundrels.

And they're serious extortionist thieves.

They come to your shop with armed policemen (never women) and claim you're selling counterfeit products of some brand, say JBL. They do not care to look at any documents proving you bought them from authorised dealers outside or within the country. They confisicate your whole inventory and start extorting you.

If you do not part with the obscene amounts they're demanding, they disappear with your goods.

If you demand to be taken to court, they produce witnesses and footage of them raiding your shop, and plant phony exhibits claiming to be the captured counterfeits. You lose. You can never win with these pigs.

Then they wait for you to restock again and they pounce again.

So today the traders have reached the end of their tether.

Based on what you narrate, could it be a case where someone is trying to weed out competition?

 

[Mwalimu-G]

and claim you're selling counterfeit products of some brand, say JBL.

Do not forget walighula ndio hizo goods zipite port.. Then they tip their upcountry colleagues nani ameleta mzigo so they come ferreting to extort.

 

[Pseudonyms]

Based on what you narrate, could it be a case where someone is trying to weed out competition?

That too.

 

[Cortedivoire]

Based on what you narrate, could it be a case where someone is trying to weed out competition?

 

[upepo]

If you demand to be taken to court, they produce witnesses and footage of them raiding your shop, and plant phony exhibits claiming to be the captured counterfeits. You lose. You can never win with these pigs.

I am not sure how this would work given that they are required to take an inventory of what they confiscate, which you have to sign against. Actually, it is very difficult to successfully prosecute these cases, even when the goods are evidently counterfeit, due to the rigorous requirements in place. For instance, it is a requirement for the original manufacturer of the goods to have a local representative who have been employed for at least six months. The original manufacturer also needs to provide detailed blueprints to prove that the seized goods are counterfeits. Manufacturers will not go to such troubles for a such an insignificant market.

 

[Young_Turk]

The vice here is the thievery of the anticounterfeit scoundrels.

And they're serious extortionist thieves.

They come to your shop with armed policemen (never women) and claim you're selling counterfeit products of some brand, say JBL. They do not care to look at any documents proving you bought them from authorised dealers outside or within the country. They confisicate your whole inventory and start extorting you.

If you do not part with the obscene amounts they're demanding, they disappear with your goods.

If you demand to be taken to court, they produce witnesses and footage of them raiding your shop, and plant phony exhibits claiming to be the captured counterfeits. You lose. You can never win with these pigs.

Then they wait for you to restock again and they pounce again.

So today the traders have reached the end of their tether.

Black man NEVER wants to see their fellow man succeed.

 

[Okiya]

Hawa watu wa counterfeit do they go to Eastleigh for inspection?