Folly of handing Mumias to oligarchs

Entrance gate at Mumias sugar company. FILE PHOTO | ISAAC WALE | NMG

They think they are big enough, rich enough and mean enough to bully and hold at ransom the whole of the sugar farming fraternity.

I refer to the tiny elite of self-absorbed oligarchs currently pulling the strings behind the scenes, even as two siblings — Sarbi Rai of Sarrai Group and Jaswant Rai of West Kenya Sugar — fight it out in court over the leasing of the troubled Mumias Sugar Company #ticker:MSC .

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