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Simba Arati differs with Governor Ongwae over Kisii sugar factory plan

Dagoretti North MP Simba Arati. He maintains the project is a waste of time. [File, Standard]

Dagoretti North MP Simba Arati is opposed to plans to set up a multi-billion-shilling sugar factory in South Mugirango constituency. 

A foreign private investor plans to spend Sh5 billion to build a renewable energy and sugar factory with a capacity to crush 5,000 tonnes of sugarcane daily and produce ethanol as well as 10 megawatts of power to the national grid.

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