{"id":101060,"date":"2023-08-21T19:56:56","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T19:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/revive-ailing-sugar-sector-mp-wamboka-tells-ruto"},"modified":"2023-08-21T20:31:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T20:31:48","slug":"revive-ailing-sugar-sector-mp-wamboka-tells-ruto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/revive-ailing-sugar-sector-mp-wamboka-tells-ruto","title":{"rendered":"Revive ailing sugar sector, MP Wamboka tells Ruto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>Bumula MP Jack Wamboka has asked President William Ruto to provide a solution for the ailing sugar sector during his visit of Western region this week.<\/p>\n<p>The legislator on Monday said he fully supports the President\u2019s visit to the region but he should come up with a solution for the sugar sector and announce when his administration will complete stalled projects.<\/p>\n<p>He asked the President to tell the region\u2019s leaders the plans his administration has to complete several projects including Koica water project, Musikoma-Mungatsi road, among others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are aware that the head of state will tour the region this week and we shall welcome him well but what we want from him is a new sugar mill,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The President is scheduled to tour Bungoma on August 27 and 28 for interdenominational prayers at Kiwanja Ndege and the official opening of the new county assembly building.<\/p>\n<p>Wamboka also called on the President to inject funds into the Nzoia Sugar Company to facilitate the payment of farmers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe company owes farmers a lot of money. It will be good if the President injects money to pay them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the last money the company received was from former President Uhuru Kenyatta towards the end of his tenure.<\/p>\n<p>The vocal MP complained that President Ruto has taken too long to visit Bungoma.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore we went to the elections, Ruto came here almost every week to campaign and woo voters, but immediately he won the election, he has never come back,\u201d the MP said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just reminding the President that we are eagerly waiting for him to come because we have many problems to tell him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\">Kenya<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. Bumula MP Jack Wamboka has asked President William Ruto to provide a solution for the ailing sugar sector during his visit of Western region this week. The legislator on Monday said he fully supports the President\u2019s visit to the region but he should come up with a solution for the sugar sector [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":101059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[6857,7003,544],"class_list":["post-101060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-kenya","tag-kenya"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Revive ailing sugar sector, MP Wamboka tells Ruto - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bumula MP Jack Wamboka has asked President William Ruto to provide a solution for the ailing sugar sector during his vis ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/revive-ailing-sugar-sector-mp-wamboka-tells-ruto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Revive ailing sugar sector, MP Wamboka tells Ruto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bumula MP Jack Wamboka has asked President William Ruto to provide a solution for the ailing sugar sector during his vis ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/revive-ailing-sugar-sector-mp-wamboka-tells-ruto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-08-21T19:56:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-21T20:31:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2023\/08\/sm_1692633599.249577.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/revive-ailing-sugar-sector-mp-wamboka-tells-ruto#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/revive-ailing-sugar-sector-mp-wamboka-tells-ruto\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Revive ailing sugar sector, MP Wamboka tells Ruto\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-08-21T19:56:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-08-21T20:31:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/revive-ailing-sugar-sector-mp-wamboka-tells-ruto\"},\"wordCount\":298,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/revive-ailing-sugar-sector-mp-wamboka-tells-ruto#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2023\/08\/sm_1692633599.249577.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Kenya\",\"Kenya\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/revive-ailing-sugar-sector-mp-wamboka-tells-ruto#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/revive-ailing-sugar-sector-mp-wamboka-tells-ruto\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/revive-ailing-sugar-sector-mp-wamboka-tells-ruto\",\"name\":\"Revive ailing sugar sector, MP Wamboka tells Ruto - 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