By: JEFF OTIENO

A wide scheme has been hatched to thwart the operations of a local sugar miller according to some key sugar industry stake holders.

The operations of Kibos Sugar and Allied Industries may be dwarfed if plans by a certain miller to engage the services of people purporting to be advocating for justice and equality seeks and achieve legal recourse.

These were revealed by a group of councilors and farmers from the cane growing zones of Chemelil, Kibos and Muhoroni.

According to councilor Balala of Aldai ward, a local miller said not to be happy with the resilience and vibrant operations of Kibos last week approached him to engage the services of hirelings to go to court as farmers in a desperate bid to thwart the good work being done, by Kibos Sugar.

“As farmers we’ve had enough frustrations and therefore we can’t succumb to petty squabbles which have got no value to us”, Balala told the press.

Kibos has so far installed weigh bridges in Awasi and Chemase which has not gone down well with rival millers who argue its tantamount to encroachment or “a coup” .

Kibos Sugar has since denied the claims through the Managing Director Raju Chanan who said their pre-occupation as a miller is to engage positively with farmers to uplift them economically and not rhetorics.

The resilient miller recently topped their tonnage to Kshs.4,200 per tone while other rival millers are still pegged on the region of Kshs. 3,750 to 3,800 per tone to their chagrin.

Kibos further pays farmers on weekly basis after delivery and their weigh bridge installations across the zones is to curb spillage and cushion the farmer from hefty transport costs inflated by unscrupulous private transporters.

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