Mumias Sugar Involved In Another Major Brawl Weeks After Ruto’s Visit
MCAs from Mumias East, Mumias West, and Matungu constituency have issued a 24-hour ultimatum to the West Kenya Sugar Company to evacuate the Mumias Sugar Factory grounds or face a large eviction demonstration.
“We are giving West Kenya 24 hours to vacate Mumias Company failure, to which we will organise a demonstration and evacuate them,” Ali Okomba, one of the MCAs, revealed.
According to the MCAs, allowing West Kenya Sugar Company to handle the Mumias distillery and core generational plants is designed to sabotage the Mumias factory’s recovery.
The MCAs believe that a competitor cannot operate the company’s cogeneration and ethanol projects.
The MCAs claim that West Kenya Sugar Company cannot continue to operate the units because they lack the necessary raw materials.
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“Raw materials for ethanol and Cogen are sugar by-products. Why do they allow a company that doesn’t have raw materials to come and operate in a factory that needs sugar products?” Boniface Osange, Khalaba MCA, argued.
The MCAs have promised to rally sugarcane growers to cease supplying sugarcane to millers.
“They have 24 hours to vacate the premises, or else our farmers will stop supplying sugarcane to the factory. We shall also lead the demonstrations to take actions by our hands to evict them,” Eddy Ombwaka, Etenje MCA, emphasised.
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The MCAs have stated that they wish to see the facility resurrected so that sugarcane growers do not suffer losses.
This setback comes just a fortnight after President William Ruto announced a Ksh150 million bonus for sugar producers who supplied cane to Kakamega’s Mumias Sugar Factory, the first such payout in the industry.
During the bonus’s launch on January 20, Ruto stated that it was one of many improvements aimed at revitalizing the company.
The downfall of the once-iconic Mumias Sugar Company was mostly caused by a lack of adequate corporate governance systems, particularly improper ownership.
Mumias Sugar Involved In Another Major Brawl Weeks After Ruto’s Visit
