Governors call for land audit as privatisation begins afresh

Migori Governor and Chairman Agricultural Committee Okoth Obado addresses the press during sugar privatization meeting in Kisumu on January 19th 2018. [Photo by Collins Oduor/Standard]

Governors from western Kenya want the identity of landowners contacted in the sugar belt made public ahead of the planned privatisation of four millers.

The county bosses argue that because the Government only controls the nucleus farms, owners of the rest of the vast belt, stretching from Bungoma on Uganda border to Migori near Tanzania, should be made public if the interests of the common farmer are to be prioritised in the sell-off.