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Kwale International Sugar Company Ltd, February 7, 2019. [File, Standard]
Kwale residents have called on the government to resolve an impasse surrounding the operations of Kwale International Sugar Company (Kiscol) in a bid to attract more foreign investors.
The residents urged the State to support the multi-billion shilling agro-processing project to attract external investments to the county.
“We want the government to intervene and iron out all the pending issues so that Kiscol operates to its full capacity,” said a resident and cane farmer, Bakari Mwachuo. The project encountered challenges after it was designed to sit on 42,000 acres that were once occupied by the Maddhvani Group, but the government made 15,000 acres available for investment. The Madhvani Group left Kwale in 1988, years before Kiscol invested its modern processor in the area.
