Cotu has castigated MPs from sugar growing areas for failing to push for a state ban on sugar importation. Okwaro accused the MPs whom he did not name of remaining silent instead of saving the gailing Mumias Sugar Company. He said the group has concentrated its energies on non-issues "yet the collapse of Mumias Sugar will severely impoverish" Western residents. "The influx of imported sugar is affecting the sale of local sugar leading to losses for companies," he said in a statement on Tuesday. "Cotu challenges these MPs to petition the Jubilee government to save Mumias and other sugar firms from further losses," he said.

Source: The Star November 01, 2016 11:27 UTC