Previous attempt at privatisation collapsed last year

Kisumu Governor Anyang Nyong'o with Agriculture cabinet Secretary Willy Bett at Chemelil sugar company on November 2 2017 where he issued a bail out cheques of sh 300 million to sugarcane farmers. (Collins Oduor, Standard)

Plans by the Government to privatise four State-owned sugar millers in Western Kenya could be revived next week after governors formulated a raft of demands they want fulfilled first.

Kisumu Governor Anyang’ Nyong’o said his colleagues from the Nyanza sugar-belt have drafted a series of conditions, which he termed a prerequisite for the process to proceed.