Mumias still insists that retail outlets should never sell the commodity at more than 280 per 2kg. It is only once that I saw Tuskys trying to do so but within days, they had gone ballistics with the sugar going at 380. Who is taking the 100 shillings on top?

The answer seems to lie on a well orchestrated plan to ensure refined imported sugar that has been lying idle due to price is eventually sold. Why our supermarkets are playing ball with this corrupt individuals is hard to fathom.

Am calling on Mumias Sugar company to go ahead and allow me to be sell the sugar in Nairobi at 280. I have warehouses and a truck which I can drive to shopping centres and supply the sugar to consumers. Game shot.

Otherwise, who is hoarding the Sugar?

@Duddete,

I'm with you on this one. Sugar is becoming another sweet cocaine. Around June when sugar prices began rising, MSC had closed down for maintenance or something like that. They however resumed operations in less than a month. Prior to closure distributors had secured and warehoused enough supply to see them through the maintenance period. In other words 'sugar shortage was a creation of the cartel.

All I know is some guys are getting rich: very rich

MSC deals with distributors,who in turn sell to retailers.The current price to distributors is Kshs 3950 per 20Kg bale.You realise after the distributors,the firm has no control over price.I would think that one way of keeping away the mad profiteers would be for the firm to put RRP on their packaged sugar....Is the situation likely to improve?.No!.Now,here is where the government comes to spot.The cane prices have shot up from 1350 some 15 months ago to 4300 currently.Reasons?The government allowed small sugar firms to operate in the country without their own nuclues or outgrowers.For the small firms to survive,they have resulted in poaching cane from the big firms or hiking cane prices to entice farmers.The result has been a cane price war.The net effect has been passed on to consumers while the farmers laugh all the way to the bank.

@Thiong'o,
If they get the volumes right before end of FY,the shareholders might have something serious to laugh about....IF!