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State to prosecute Mumias managers

By Moses Michira and Nicholas Waitathu | Jan. 31, 2015

*Mumias Sugar Board chairman Dan Ameyo (right) with Managing Director Coutts ottolo during a recent press briefing. [PHOTO: COLLINS ODUOR/STANDARD]*

Mumias Sugar will fire and prosecute its management in a decisive twist that could also have current and past managers surcharged to recover stolen funds.

Agriculture Secretary Felix Koskei, has told The Standard on Saturday of an elaborate plan to revive the firm, including immediate replacement of top management, months after audit firm KPMG unearthed major scandals that forced the country’s largest miller to its knees.

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