Toxic Sugar
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The United Opposition has raised concerns that a staggering 25,000 metric tonnes of sugar, deemed unfit for human consumption, is set to flood the Kenyan market.
In a press release on Thursday, Kalonzo Musyoka, the leader of the Wiper Movement Party, stated that this sugar, which has recently arrived at the Port of Mombasa, is already en route to Western Kenya where it will be repackaged and sold to unsuspecting Kenyans.
While they didn’t specify where the sugar came from, they asserted that it has already been labeled as unfit for human consumption.
“We are aware of a cargo of 25,000 MT of sugar that recently landed in our Port of Mombasa. These 25,000 MT of sugar are already on their way to a Western Kenya sugar factory to be repackaged and sold to unsuspecting Kenyans,” the statement read.
“This cargo has already been declared from its port of origin unfit for human public consumption. Yet, the Ruto regime has quickly cleared it. What kind of man is this? What kind of a regime is this that puts their own reprehensible needs before that of the public’s well-being?”
As such, they demanded that the consignment, which they claim has already been earmarked, be publicly condemned and destroyed.
“Fellow Kenyans, this is a criminal regime that not only resorts to wilful violence against its people and physically harms its populace, making them unfit for public consumption of goods, but also attempts to limit its people via wilful and defunding education, which is a right,” the statement continued.
The Kenya Bureau of Standards, tasked with ensuring the quality of products for the Kenyan market, still hasn’t tackled this issue.
Sadly, this isn’t the first time Kenyans have found themselves in a scandal involving contaminated food; sugar, in particular, has raised red flags in the country.
Just over a year ago, in June 2024, the Departmental Committee of Trade presented its findings on the contaminated sugar that mysteriously vanished in Thika back in 2023.
The report revealed that this tainted sugar made its way to the market and was sold to unsuspecting consumers, with the government taking the heat for it.
Several government agencies were named in the scandal, including the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS), the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA), and the Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA).
The contaminated sugar had been sent to a warehouse in Thika for conversion into ethanol before it mysteriously disappeared.
Toxic Sugar
