Consumers to be hit with another levy should proposed law on sugar pass

Sugar stocked at a supermarket in Kisumu in a picture taken on August 18,2018. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

A proposed law seeks to re-introduce a levy on all imported and locally milled sugar in what is likely to raise the cost of the sweetener.

Sponsored by Kanduyi MP Wafula Wamunyinyi, the Sugar Bill, 2019 empowers the Cabinet Secretary in charge of Agriculture, in consultation with a newly created sugar board, to impose Sugar Development Levy on domestic and imported sugar to be used for development and promotion of the industry.