The United Opposition has alleged that 25,000 metric tonnes of sugar unfit for human consumption are about to hit the Kenyan market.
In a press release on Thursday, Wiper Movement Party Leader Kalonzo Musyoka claimed that the sugar, which had docked at the Port of Mombasa, was already on its way to Western Kenya to be repackaged and sold to Kenyans.
Even though they did not mention the origin of the sugar, they claimed that it had already been declared 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.
Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka addressing Kenyans during a past rally in Emali on June 6, 2025.
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“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, which is responsible for vetting the quality of products meant for the Kenyan market, is yet to address the matter.
Just over a year ago, in June 2024, the Departmental Committee of Trade tabled its report on the contaminated sugar that mysteriously disappeared in Thika in 2023.
The report established that the contaminated sugar was released to the market and sold to unsuspecting Kenyans, placing the blame on the government.
Among the government agencies implicated in the scandal were the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS), the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA), and the Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA).
The contaminated sugar had been transported to a warehouse in Thika to be converted to Ethanol before it disappeared.
A photo of brown sugar.
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