{"id":226639,"date":"2026-03-12T00:46:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T22:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-sugar-act-stuck-in-court-as-senators-petition-cj-koome-for-action\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T00:46:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T22:46:59","slug":"kenya-sugar-act-stuck-in-court-as-senators-petition-cj-koome-for-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-sugar-act-stuck-in-court-as-senators-petition-cj-koome-for-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Sugar Act Stuck in Court As Senators Petition CJ Koome for Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Nairobi \u2014 A section of Senators from sugar-growing regions has petitioned Chief Justice Martha Koome to fast-track court cases that are delaying the implementation of the Sugar Act No.11 of 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The lawmakers, led by Senate Majority Leader Aaron Cheruiyot and backed by 16 Senators from sugar belt counties, say the ongoing legal battles are slowing down reforms that were meant to revive the struggling sugar sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The Sugar Act was assented to by President William Ruto in November 2024 and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603110379.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 A section of Senators from sugar-growing regions has petitioned Chief Justice Martha Koome to fast-track court cases that are delaying the implementation of the Sugar Act No.11 of 2024. The lawmakers, led by Senate Majority Leader Aaron Cheruiyot and backed by 16 Senators from sugar belt counties, say the ongoing legal battles are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":226640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[6991,6394,258,256,6185,4688,430,37268,257,5653,9179,254,13542,11531],"class_list":["post-226639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-act","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-court","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-koome","tag-news","tag-petition","tag-senators","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stuck","tag-sugar"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}