The people additionally accused Sarrai Group of allegedly uploading people from Uganda to paintings on the sugar miller, claims the Star couldn't affirm.

The people claimed that that they'd long past for months with out pay in spite of reviews of the Uganda-primarily based totally agency taking on operations on the sugar miller. Mumias Sugar Company people on Thursday held protests over delays in price in their salaries.

The people additionally accused Sarrai Group of allegedly uploading people from Uganda to paintings on the sugar miller, claims the Star couldn't independently affirm.

The people claimed that that they'd long past for months with out pay in spite of reviews of the Uganda-primarily based totally agency taking on operations on the sugar miller.“We need arrears to be paid immediately. We additionally need locals to be allowed to paintings withinside the agency and Ugandans who had been added in be deported returned to their country," Patrick Mutimba, one of the people, advised the media in Kakamega at some stage in the protests.

Mutimba, the Mumias Sugar Company Workers Union Chairman, stated the agency nonetheless owes people Sh2.three billion.

He stated in spite of committing to clean the arrears thru their reputable bid document, as soon as it took over operations, the Ugandan-agency is but to do so.

“The few Kenyans running interior are running additional time and they're now no longer being compensated,” he stated.

The protests come weeks after Sarrai Group turned into blocked with the aid of using appellate courtroom docket from running on the Sugar mill.The gag order is till a case lodged in opposition to it's miles heard and determined.

The ruling intended Sarrai remained locked out of Mumias Sugar premises.

The people additionally accused Sarrai Group of breaching settlement that could have visible former people retained on the agency, allegations the Star couldn't additionally affirm independently.They stated the the settlement signed in December 2021 required Sarrai to soak up former personnel after they take over.

“Sarrai Group had agreed to maintain the people and pay them their dues. The people right here also are farmers. They come from this community. Why is the agency sidelining them and they're those who make this manufacturing unit operational? “If they're now no longer criminals, why are they running in darkness. What are they hiding?” one of the people posed.

The agitated people additionally accused the police of colluding with the oppressors with the aid of using barring them from annoying for his or her rights thru demonstration.

This is once they had been blocked from retaining a assembly but, they claim, that they'd a permit.