Cane farmers want sugar importers stopped

Kisumu, Tuesday, May 23, 2023

KNA by Milton Onyango

The sugarcane growers in the Nyanza region want the government to arrest illegal sugar importers whom they have lamented are impoverishing the sugarcane growers and the stunting the growth of sugar industry in the country.

The farmers now want the government to act with speed and round up all the individuals who have been mentioned on the contraband sugar importation.

“It is our plea that the government deals decisively with all those who have been adversely mentioned over illegal sugar importation especially the echelons at the sugar directorate and thorough investigations be launched so that truth be established on how such illegal sugar gained entry into the country because the company that has been mentioned in the case is in the first place not even legally registered to import sugar into the country,” said chairman Richard Ogendo.

Ogendo pleaded that the unscrupulous sugar barons who imported such sugar should be arrested claiming that some of whom “are stationed at (Agriculture Ministry Headquarters) Kilimo House.

“So it is in this sense that we as an organization feel that the government should not sacrifice small people but strike hard on the principal officers in charge at Kilimo House towards bettering the welfare of the ministry” noted Ogendo.

Courtesy; K.N.A