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4,000 workers seek to stop sugar mills leases

Muhoroni sugar company which has been closed indefinitely and reposesed by Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA).[FILE,Standard]

Over 4,000 employees from four State-owned sugar factories have filed a case in court seeking to stop a planned redundancy and the ongoing privatisation.

The workers drawn from Chemelil, South Nyanza, Muhoroni and Nzoia sugar companies accuse the Ministry of Agriculture of breaching a memorandum of understanding signed on May 7 ahead of the leasing of the mills to private investors.

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