Farmers want sugar importers charged

Sugarcane farmers demonstrate in Awendo town on demands that the Government to take action against Sugar Millers in the region who are involved in cane poaching and importing contraband sugar in the region. [Caleb King'wara/Standard]

Farmers’ representatives want action taken against officials of a sugar company that was said to have been paid Sh82 million to import the commodity on behalf of another firm.

The Awendo branch chairman of the Kenya Federation of Sugarcane Farmers, John Odondi, and the secretary, Joseph Adongo, asked how the firm could allow itself to be used to bring in a consignment worth over Sh3.5 billion and only get Sh82 million.