Oparanya-led team calls for blanket ban on sugar imports

Sugar cane farmers demonstrate outside the Kisumu County governor’s office to push for payment of their arrears. A team set up to look at the sector is finalising its report. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

A sugar task force set up in December last year has started making recommendations that could have far-reaching effects in the sugar sector.

The task force created by President Uhuru Kenyatta, and chaired by Kakamega Governor Wycliffe Oparanya, is recommending a total ban on sugar importation.