Relief for sugar cane millers as State lifts ban on night transport

An overturned cane truck in Navakholo, Kakamega County. Residents have urged the State to develop roads in the region which are currently in a poor state. [Mumo Munuve, Standard]

It is a sigh of relief to sugarcane factories and truck drivers in the western Kenya sugar belt after the Kenya National Highway Authority (KeNHA) and security chiefs allowed cane trucks to transport sugarcane at night.

This follows a tiff between the cane millers in the region, county governments, truck owners, and road authorities over suitable roads for the trucks to use while transporting cane to the sugar factories for crushing.