Mumias Sugar receiver manager risks jail term for ignoring summonses

 

Mumias Sugar Company receiver-manager, Ponangipalli Venkata Ramana Rao (with half jacket) during a press conference at the company's boardroom on March 4, 2020. [Nathan Ochunge, Standard]

Mumias Sugar Company receiver-manager Ponangipalli Venkata Ramana Rao risks imprisonment for six months or being fined Sh500,000 for ignoring Senate summonses. Rao has failed to honour at least three summonses by the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries over the leasing of the sugar firm.