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Cash crunch cripples sugar firm Mumias

Lincoln Olunga, who supplies cane to Mumias Sugar Company, in his farm. The factory owes farmers Sh600 million. [File, Sandard]

Operations at Mumias Sugar Company have ground to a halt following a cash crunch and cane scarcity.

The sugar milling firm is grappling with up to Sh18.6 billion debt owed to banks, Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA), employees and sugarcane farmers.

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