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Court orders State to release seized sugar after it passes quality test

The Kwale Sugar Company. [Photo, Courtesy]

The High Court in Mombasa has ordered the State to release a consignment of sugar impounded at a sugar factory in Kwale County almost five months ago.

A multi-agency task force raided Kwale International Sugar Company (Kiscol) in June, confiscating the consignment of about 3,700 tonnes of brown sugar said to have been contaminated.

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