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Omtatah leads Farmers, MPS in rejecting sugar zoning

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Speaker of the National Assembly Moses Wetangula and Kakamega Governor Fernandes Barasa lead other sugar sector delegates in the sugar forum conference at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology on September 8, 2023. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]

Some leaders from Western Kenya have joined farmers opposed to the zoning of sugar mills.

Busia Senator Okiya Omtatah, Malava MP Malulu Injendi and former chairman of the defunct Kenya Sugar Board (KSB) Saul Busolo argued that introducing zoning will make rogue millers neglect and enslave the farmers.

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