Call to sell sugar firms

THE Western Development Initiative Association has asked the government to streamline the sugar sector ahead of the expiry of the Comesa safeguard period in March, 2014. Vice chair Joseph Barasa in a statement said the government should speed up the privatisation of sugar factories. “People are losing jobs and the country's economy being affected because most factories have not diversified,” said Barasa in a statement he issued on Sunday. He said that even Mumias Sugar Company in which only owns 20 percent of shares has already diversified but the uncontrolled poaching of its cane would...