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Cancel State sugar millers leasing deals
Chemelil Sugar workers and Kenya Union of Sugar Plantation and Allied Workers, Chemelil Branch protest the leasing of the company to Kibos Sugar on April 29, 2025.
Where are the sane voices to guide and to inform the raging controversy over the plan by the government to lease five state-owned sugar companies to local sugar oligarchs?
The economic merit for privatising the sugar companies cannot be gainsaid. But the biggest mistake the government is making is to cherish the illusion and pretend that it doesn’t know that private sugar oligarchs in this country can never be part of the solution to the problems bedevilling the state- owned sugar companies.