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Bitter Christmas as Sh2.6 billion sugarcane pay delayed

Fredrick Okongo attend to his sugarcane on his farm in Asembo, Siaya county. [File, Standard]

Sugarcane farmers will have nothing to celebrate about this Christmas after the government failed to release Sh2.6 billion to clear their arrears.

President Uhuru Kenyatta had directed Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mwangi Kiunjuri and his Treasury counterpart Henry Rotich to make the funds available before Christmas.

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