MPs: Uhuru-Museveni trade pact spells doom for Agricultural sector

Members of Parliament who sit on the National Assembly’s Agriculture Committee, Wednesday demanded details of the trade agreement that President Uhuru Kenyatta signed with his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni.

The deal on Uganda’s sugar exports to Kenya in exchange for dairy and beef products has rattled the lawmakers, many of them from the country’s sugar belt, who said it was likely to kill struggling local millers, and consign sugarcane farmers to poverty.