During first week of September 1987, 240,000 bags lay at warehouses of four sugar factories

Hired workers off-load the sacks of sugar from one of the eight containers which were impounded by the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) at the FOCAS Freight Yard in Changamwe

NAIROBI, KENYA: Sugar was everywhere, but selling it proved sour business.

Thousands of tonnes of the imported sweetener had flooded the market to the peril of cane farmers in Western Kenya.