Muhoroni MP Onyango Koyoo has rejected plans to merge Muhoroni and Chemelil sugar companies.
After the merger, the companies would have been sold to a strategic investor in a government-planned privatisation.
Koyoo said the merger is contained in the privatisation gazette notice with a claim that Muhoroni does not have enough nucleus estate for farming sugarcane to sustain the factory.
He said the issue has been a concern and on several occasions he has raised it before parliament.
“I will not relent until the government addresses this issue conclusively,” he said.
Speaking in his constituency after giving out bursary to students, the MP said Muhoroni Sugar Company is one of the sugar factories within Nyando sugar belt that had massive nucleus estate.
Koyoo accused some influential personalities during the Nyayo era of grabbing huge chunks of the factory land leaving it with a small section not able to sustain it.
He is proposing that the planned privatisation be put on hold and such land be repossessed to allow Muhoroni Sugar Company to be sold separately.
“We want the privatisation process halted so that this issue be resolved because the factory land cannot be taken away by individuals in unclear manner,” he said.
The MP noted that proper consultation should be carried out bringing stakeholders’ that included farmers and Kisumu county leadership to deliberate over the issue.