Preserve Raila’s Kisumu molasses dream

 Raila Odinga inspects distillation tanks at the abandoned molasses plant accompanied by Mr Otieno Kajwang in March 1996

Photo credit: File | Nation Media Group

As we honoured the late Raila Odinga on Thusday, one question kept returning to my mind: Is this the end of the road for the Kisumu Molasses plant and for his grand plan of asset repurposing?

That plan was, in essence, a last-ditch effort to convert an unviable industrial asset, weighed down by heavy operating costs, into a high-yield, capital-intensive real estate master development: the proposed Sh120 billion Lake Victoria Marina waterfront project on the former Kisumu Molasses site.

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