Kakamega Deputy Governor Ayub Savula has called for an audit of operations at the Mumias Sugar Company.
He thanked President William Ruto for writing off the debts of the troubled sugar miller.
A forensic audit of the collapsed giant will deter the recurrence of malpractices that crippled the miller, he said.
Ruto wrote off Sh33.3 billion that Mumias owed suppliers in an attempt to save the firm with a view to getting the miller back on its feet.
“We want an audit of production. Our agitation for revival of Mumias Sugar Company was so that it can have a direct impact on our farmers. We don’t want it to become another conduit for importation, repackaging and selling of sugar in the name of Mumias when farmers are not benefiting,” he said.
“We want to know how much cane the company has developed and how much sugar they are producing and selling,” he added.
Savula made the statement at Mumias sports arena during Governor Fernandes Baraza's Mumias West sub-county soccer finals on Thursday.
Mumias got back to business on December 1 and is buying cane from farmers at Sh6,050 a tonne.
The resumption followed lifting of a four months moratorium on sugar milling by all sugar millers countrywide.
Savula urged farmers to expand their farms under cane and take advantage of the prices offered by millers as well as benefit from the government’s subsidised fertiliser.
