Ruto allies link Uhuru kin to sugar trade row

Agriculture CS Mwangi Kiunjuri (right) and PS Richard Lesiyampe before the National Assembly Agriculture and Trade joint committees that are probing suspected importation of contraband sugar. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

Deputy President William Ruto's allies yesterday dragged the Kenyatta family into the raging sugar scandal.

Aldai MP Cornelius Serem stirred a heated debate when he named a company associated with President Uhuru Kenyattta’s younger brother during the proceedings of a joint House committee investigating contraband sugar.