Kenya is one of the countries producing sugarcane at a large scale in the east Africa market but the recent woes have almost killed all sugar-processing companies.
With these wrangles, come long court battles from which lawyers have turned to be cash cows.
For instance, the office of Directorate of Criminal Investigations is investigating the loss of billions of shillings belonging to the South Nyanza Sugar Company (Sony).
Sony sugar suspended acting managing director Bernard Otieno, while confirming that the investigations are on- going, said that the company had contracted private investigators to profile several cases indicting lawyers.
He said that the financial woes bedevelling Sony have been attributed to fraud by a cartel of unscrupulous lawyers.
“Previously, only three law firms represented cane farmers compared to 51 today,” he is quoted by People Daily.
According to a report by Advanced Forensics Ltd, a company of private investigators, lawyers have turned the facility into a cash cow.
“When I assumed office, we set up a task force which unravelled serious financial rip-offs where lawyers purporting to represent farmers fleeced the company billions of shillings,” he said.
Advanced Forensics Ltd established that a cartel of lawyers had made millions of shillings by forging documents and obtaining cash through false pretence.