Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero yesterday blamed politicians from Western Kenya for the collapse of Mumias Sugar Company.
Speaking at Dandora PAG Church, the governor said local politicians incited the public not to plant sugarcane and this made Mumias Sugar to fall due to lack of raw materials.
He said claims he mismanaged the giant miller are false.
Kidero said when he joined the company in 2003, it was making a loss of Sh500 million per year.
"During my first year, we made a profit of Sh800 million. When I left, the company had a profit of Sh3 billion. The problems bedeviling Mumias are not as a result of mismanagement by me. You cannot cook ugali without maize. That means there is no sugar without sugarcane," he said.
Kidero said Kabete MP Ferdinand Waititu's petition against his election
was dismissed based on technicalities and not because he gave Supreme Court judge Philip Tunoi a Sh200 million bribe.
He said Waititu failed to file his election petition in two weeks, instead doing
so after 73 days and that is why the case was
dismissed.
Kidero condemned Kikuyu MPs for claiming they want to campaign and get him voted out by importing voters into the city.
"Nairobi belongs to all Kenyans and in any case if there was a tribe that could claim Nairobi as ancestral land, it would be the Maasais," he said.
