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President Uhuru Kenyatta spells out plan to revive sugar industry

President Uhuru Kenyatta awards JKUAT Deputy Vice Chancellor Esther Kahangi during the Nairobi International Trade Fair yesterday. [PHOTO: FIDELIS KABUNYI/STANDARD]

President Uhuru Kenyatta ended his silence on the controversy in the sugar sector with a pledge to revive the industry and have the farmers in the sugar belt benefit.

Speaking yesterday at the Nairobi International Trade Fair just hours after jetting in from the US, the President said his government had written off debts worth Sh39.7 billion that sugar millers owed the Sugar Development Levy Fund.

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