United Opposition Sounds Alarm Of Alleged Contaminated Sugar Sale To Kenyans
The United Opposition claims that 25,000 metric tonnes of sugar unfit for human consumption are poised to enter the Kenyan market.
In a news release issued Thursday, Wiper Movement Party Leader Kalonzo Musyoka stated that the sugar, which had docked at the Port of Mombasa, was already on its way to Western Kenya to be repackaged and sold to Kenyans.
Even though they did not specify the source of the sugar, they claimed that it had already been pronounced unsuitable for human consumption.
“We are aware of a cargo of 25,000 MT of sugar that recently landed in our Port of Mombasa,” the statement read.
“These 25,000 MT of sugar are already on their way to a Western Kenya sugar factory to be repackaged and sold to unsuspecting Kenyans.”
“This cargo has already been declared from its port of origin unfit for human public consumption. Yet, the Ruto regime has quickly cleared it,” it continued.
“What kind of man is this? What kind of a regime is this that puts their own reprehensible needs before that of the public’s well-being?”
We are aware of a cargo of 25,000MT of sugar that recently landed in our Port of Mombasa. These 25,000 MT of sugar are already on their way to a Western Kenya sugar factory to be repackaged and sold to unsuspecting Kenyans. This cargo has ALREADY BEEN DECLARED FROM ITS PORT OR… pic.twitter.com/WiK4aNX1Xn
— Kalonzo Musyoka (@skmusyoka) July 31, 2025
As a result, they requested that the consignment, which they claimed had already been identified, be publicly condemned and destroyed.
“Fellow Kenyans, this is a criminal regime that not only resorts to wilful violence against its people and physically harms its populace, making them unfit for public consumption of goods, but also attempts to limit its people via wilful and defunding education, which is a right,” the statement continued.
The Kenya Bureau of Standards, which is in charge of ensuring the quality of products intended for the Kenyan market, has yet to address the issue.
Unfortunately, this is not the first time Kenyans have been involved in a food contamination issue; sugar, in particular, has been detected in Kenya.
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Just over a year ago, in June 2024, the Departmental Committee of Trade presented its findings on the contaminated sugar that suddenly vanished in Thika in 2023.
The research proved that contaminated sugar was dumped into the market and sold to naive Kenyans, blaming the government.
Among the government agencies implicated in the scandal were the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS), the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA), and the Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA).
The contaminated sugar had been transported to a warehouse in Thika to be converted to Ethanol before it disappeared.
United Opposition Sounds Alarm Of Alleged Contaminated Sugar Sale To Kenyans
