Reprieve to sugarcane farmers as Uhuru orders payment of their Sh2.6 billion dues

President Uhuru make his speech during celebrations to mark Mashujaa Day at Bukhungu Stadium in Kakamega. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]

Sugarcane farmers have a reason to smile after President Uhuru Kenyatta assured them the government will release Sh2.6 billion owed them in less than a month’s time.

The President said, during the Mashujaa Day celebrations at Bukhungu Stadium in Kakamega Saturday, it saddens him that the government has been releasing money for the sugar industry, yet it had not been revived.