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Bitterness as hoarding causes shortage, high prices of sugar

An empty sugar shelf at a supermarket in Kisumu on Saturday, August 18, 2018. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

Confusion has hit the sugar sector amid shortages, hiked prices, alleged hoarding and uncertainty of safety of the product in the market. 

A week after MPs rejected a report on the importation of contaminated sugar, the industry appeared to be in turmoil even as questions arose over the whereabouts of the bad sugar confiscated by the police.

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