Sugar regulator slowly suffocating industry

The former Kenya Sugar Board (KSB), which is now the Sugar Directorate under Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Authority (AFFA), is systematically and ruthlessly killing the country’s sugar industry that it is mandated to protect and regulate either by default or deliberate design.

This state of affairs is still prevailing and getting worse as the cartels tighten their stranglehold on the country’s sugar industry even after the Government has, for the last four years, lobbied for the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) member states to extend the Comesa safeguards on Kenya’s sugar.