Bungoma Senator Moses Wetangula has claimed that the contraband sugar nabbed recently will require about two years in order to be eradicated from the market.
Speaking on Friday, Wetangula further lauded MPs for rejecting a joint report by the agriculture and trade committees on Sugar.
According to the senator, the report was shallow. He said that further investigations should be conducted to reveal the truth.
He said importation of duty-free sugar was hurting the sugar belt region.
"We in Bungoma, Kakamega, Busia, Siaya, Kisumu, Kericho, Homa Bay, Migori, Nandi and Narok we are very disturbed with the massive importation of sugar that is said to be unfit for consumption by unscrupulous business people but licensed by the ministry of finance," he said.
He added that factories like Chemilili, Muhoroni, Nzoia will remain paralyzed with contraband sugar in the market.
"We know that any sugar landing in this economy from any country that is subsidized or grown in large-scale production and produced cheaply means that Kenyan sugar cannot sell," he said.
He was addressing the press at his Kanduyi home in Bungoma.