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Private firm to inject Sh12.3b to revive sugar factories

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Kenya Sugar Board Chairman, Nicolas Gumbo. [Courtesy]

Private companies that won bids to take over public sugar factories will need to inject Sh12.3 billion to resuscitate the mills.

Details on the government's plan also say the investors will pay Sh522 million goodwill.

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