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Author:\u00a0KEPHER OTIENO<\/strong>
\nAfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party leader Raila Odinga has assured cane farmers that they will push the government to fast track leasing of the ageing sugar factories.<\/p>\n

In a bid to defend the government’s plan to lease the millers, Raila asked farmers to be patient as the state works out on feasible leasing terms and conditions.<\/p>\n

”I know some farmers’ patience is running out of steam, but all I can assure you is to be patient for good fortune is in the offing,” Raila told the farmers in Ombasa, Awendo.<\/p>\n

Raila claimed the government was not best poised to run the sugar factories and therefore leasing the state-owned mills was the only sure way to revitalise them.<\/p>\n

”We want to change the management of the sugar factories to boost their efficiency and production capacities and make sure that they operate in optimum capacity,” Raila said.<\/p>\n

He questioned where the sugar proceeds from cane harvested and milled disappeared to for years with most sugar factories operating in losses as opposed to profits.<\/p>\n

Raila told cane farmers to support plans by President Uhuru Kenyatta’s administration to lease the sugar factories as opposed to appointing Managing Directors to run them.<\/p>\n

He said private millers have continued to thrive because they continuously find ways to reduce costs to better and pay farmers promptly unlike state millers that take months.<\/p>\n

Today, thousands of cane farmers across Awendo, Nyando, and Mumias sugar belts claim most millers were unable to harvest and mill their cane in good time.<\/p>\n

”Government\u2019s mission is to provide for all citizens through the common good\u2013 things like roads, schools, security among other infrastructure,” Raila told farmers in Awendo.<\/p>\n

Raila appealed to cane farmers at the burial of the late Peter Sirawa, father to Awendo MP Walter Owino to support leasing of the state-owned firms.<\/p>\n

”We want the factories to be leased to new investors who will run them as profit-making entities and foster innovation by setting standards for research and development.”<\/p>\n

Migori Senator Ochillo Ayacko had earlier supported leasing but called for public participation, a suggestion Raila dismissed as unworkable and a waste of time.<\/p>\n

”You cannot talk of public engagement. The public does not have the experience, qualifications, and\/or expertise. What role will they play or advise in leasing the factories,” he posed<\/p>\n

Raila clarified only experts with either local or global experience to run the sugar factories should be given chance to lease the mills for a period of a specified time.<\/p>\n

He cautioned against dragging the government feet by calling for public participation when most farmers were stuck with thousands of hectares under cane due for harvest.<\/p>\n

Public participation was already done through a series of consultative meetings held by the National Sugar Task Force chaired by Kakamega Governor Wycliffe Oparanya.<\/p>\n

Migori Governor Okoth Obado supported planned leasing of the factories to end years of ‘economic strangulation’ of thousands of cane growers who heavily depend on the industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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