[1] The KEBS Board of Directors is known as the National Standards Council ("NSC") and is the policy-making body for supervising and controlling the administration and financial management of the Bureau.
Ms. Ngari replaced Benard Njiraini whom, among 26 others, was suspended from the Bureau over an alleged release and sale of condemned sugar.
[2] The aims and objectives of KEBS include preparation of standards relating to products, measurements, materials, processes, etc.
and their promotion at national, regional and international levels; certification of industrial products; assistance in the production of quality goods; quality inspection of imports at ports of entry; improvement of measurement accuracies and dissemination of information relating to standards.
To keep close liaison with and render efficient services to industry, trade and commerce in different parts of the country, KEBS has six Regional Offices in Mombasa, Kisumu, Nakuru, Garissa, Nyeri, and Eldoret, and has import inspection offices at all the legal points of entry in Kenya.