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Ruto tells off MPs opposing plans to lease five sugar millers

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Sony sugar company Tractor transporting canes to the factory on February 22, 2021. [Caleb Kingwara, Standard]

President William Ruto has asked MPs opposed to the government's plan to lease its five sugar millers to "take opposition politics elsewhere."

The President who was in Bungoma on Thursday for a development tour said the state plans to lease the millers for a period of at least 30 years which is in line with the push to improve efficiency

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