Kisero on Sugar: Go slow on politicking over non-issues

[RV Pundit]

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Well CORD are desperate for a election issue...and Uganda-Kenya relationship be damned.

http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/We-are-stoking-an-unnecessary-trade-war/-/440808/2838168/-/aoqur6/-/index.html

Meanwhile Mumias continue to sink deeper into abyss.
http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Mumias-Sugar-in-more-trouble-with-losses-past-Sh3bn-/-/539552/2837966/-/1xds73/-/index.html

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Let's see who ends with a bloodied nose. It has to be either

[RV Pundit]

Hopefully something good can come out of it. We seriously need to do something about Sugar. No reason why we are importing from backwater Zambia or Malawi or Uganda.

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I think it is easier to kill it and let Western burn than postponing the inevitable. Sugar, like cotton is dead

[RV Pundit]

That is my thinking too. Any sector that is worse off than Uganda or Zambia or Malawi..those are LANDLOCKED countries..facing 2 or 3 times the logistics cost and time...doesn't have any future. GoK should let this one die....and out of it...will arise something better.

I think it is easier to kill it and let Western burn than postponing the inevitable. Sugar, like cotton is dead

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Well CORD are desperate for a election issue...and Uganda-Kenya relationship be damned.

http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/We-are-stoking-an-unnecessary-trade-war/-/440808/2838168/-/aoqur6/-/index.html

Meanwhile Mumias continue to sink deeper into abyss.
http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Mumias-Sugar-in-more-trouble-with-losses-past-Sh3bn-/-/539552/2837966/-/1xds73/-/index.html

It's good politics for CORD.  In fact less outrageous than pushing an indicted thug on the populace.

They know that this deal is not what ails the industry.  But they have a right to milk it.

[RV Pundit]

Right. Seem like good that we finally are discussing issues (like sugar) not really base stuff.That is only flip-side to this. And really CORD doesn't have to play by any rules set by Jubilee. Jubilee are in GoK and should realize after politicking is over..they have to a job to do here...balance the interest of farmers and rest of kenyans who had had to endure world most expensive sugar for decades...with no end in sight.

If I were UhuRuto...I would kill the industry...and let kenyans enjoy cheap brazil sugar....everyone will be happy..including the sugar farmer.

Somalia maybe at war..but they buy their sugar cheaply.

It's good politics for CORD.  In fact less outrageous than pushing an indicted thug on the populace.

They know that this deal is not what ails the industry.  But they have a right to milk it.