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The new frontiers for grand corruption
Until Kenya has verifiable, fully operational domestic refining capacity operating under strict public health oversight, there is no economic or logistical justification for allowing a single kilogramme of raw sugar into the country.
Trade and regulatory arbitrage are becoming the new frontier for grand corruption in Kenya. Consider what Parliament has just done to the sugar industry.
Under the populist banner of "protecting local millers and sugarcane farmers," the Finance Act 2026 aggressively increases excise duty on imported finished table sugar from Sh7.50 to a punishing Sh40 per kilogramme.
