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Firm (Mumias Sugar) that contributed heavily to exchequer now on its knees

On June 29, 2012, as the rest of the country was whipped up in political emotion, something was happening in Nucleus Estate in Kakamega. Within the estate is the giant Mumias Sugar Company, a firm that locals once fondly referred to as Musco.

On that day, company executives, junior employees and villagers from the nearby Shibale shopping centre gathered in the company’s headquarters to bid farewell to someone who had been at the helm of the company for a decade.

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