Not just Mumias, virtually all state owned sugar industries and all this is the work of that crook Rai. It's also not a secret Tha arap ma~land is no far from there. To what end and how did Rai do it? For starters, almost all sugar mills have their own nucleus estate. It was a prerequisite to have own estate before establishing a factory. Besides the estate, the various firms had contracted farmers around their mills and areas were zoned in a way to avoid conflict between mills. The sugar mills had contracts with the farmers but somewhere along, zoning was scrapped and Rai with his deep pockets invaded contracted farmers with cash. The poor farmers trashed the contracts and sold their cane to Rai. Today, farmers owe government owned mills several billions in unfulfilled contracts. Besides, the canny Rai did not stop there. He has established mills around gaament owned mills with a view of killing them off and then buy their estates and mills for a song. This besides establishing weigh bridges and cane buying centre's at the doorsteps of gaament owned mills. The script is so well done that I highly doubt any of the mills will survive that mukora onslaught. It's Panpaper season 2.

@Njunge: From your rants, it seems the fault lies with those who break their contracts.
If a farmer has signed up with a sugarcane processing firm then both parties should fulfill their end of the contract.

So who did not do so?

The farmer alright but someone took advantage of the poor farmers in his grand scheme of things.

Njunge has a point about posturing by Rai.. He's shaking down the farmers

You are theoretically right, but your reasoning makes one wonder at the fact that you occupy the same universe as those farmers, obligations notwithstanding