The vexed question of whether or not State-owned sugar companies should be privatised is here again. A Cabinet dispatch this week announced that the new government had rescinded the Uhuru Kenyatta administration’s decision to sell six State-owned factories, namely, Mumias, Trans Nzoia, Chemelil, Muhoroni, Miwani and South Nyanza Sugar.
I support the decision by the Cabinet because this whole idea was only going to serve the interests of local private millers who were plotting behind the scenes to grab these assets for a song.
