Race for Upper Western Kenya Sugar Board Directorship Hots-UP
With the country prepared to have its directors rerpresenting various regions one director is cutting himself a place as far as directorate poistion is concern.
BY Wakhungu Andanje
As the Kenya Sugar Board is set to realign and constitiute its own bosy to represent the farmers, its upper Western region is also on its campaign to have a director who will represent the farmers on the board.
With the country prepared to have its directors rerpresenting various regions one director is cutting himself a place as far as directorate poistion is concern.
James Mutele Weindava has stood the sands of time and is prepared to square it out with other contestants who are four in number and who will be battling it out for the same position as well.
Armed with vast experience having worked in the Kenya agricultural research institute (KARI) with many years of hands on expereince and later moving to Sony sugar factory where he worked for several years,he prides himself as having the right qualifications to become director.
He has called on the locals to embrace cane farming as it is coming with many benefits through the newly constituted board that is meant to give more priviledges and benefits to the cane farmer unlike before where the growers had been subjected to many deductions and penalties that were hefty and draconian to them.
Weindava who has a massive backing of the cane growers within has said he will ensure that the industry has more benefits towards farmers including bonusses just like tea and coffee.
"We are pushing for better terms and benefits for our cane growers to bring back the trade to its needed standards as Western region has many factories milling sugar and hence needs frequent supply of the raw materials to enable them keep operational"he urges farmers.
At the same time, the aspiring director took issue with the Kenya sugar board to balance the voting centres in each region noting that they were skwewed and irregular making voting exercise to be more costly.
"Our views was that they atleast allocate one voting point in every ward to allow easy accessiblility to the polling centre but despite raising our concerns over the irregularities, they have not addressed them and we have just realized that they did not capture our views at all."
He urges voters to come out in large numbers to vote him in so he can represent their grievances concerning cane farming in the expansive region.
He said he was looking forward to pushing for better legislations and seed canes that will mature early at the same time fetch more monies to the growers.
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