Harmful sugar was sold to Kenyans before being refined, MPs told

West Kenya Sugar Company chairman Jaswant Rai when he appeared before the National Assembly Agriculture and Trade Joint Committees at County Hall, Nairobi on Thursday 28/06/18. [Boniface Okendo,Standard]

Millions of Kenyans may have been exposed to harmful chemicals after it emerged that bulk brown sugar was sold at the port of Mombasa before being refined for human consumption.

It further emerged that thousands of tonnes of sugar were transported from the port to different warehouses at the Coast in tippers – a vehicle normally used to ferry sand, cement and other building materials – for packaging.