Uncertainty has hit Sony Sugar Company after the court temporarily put to a halt recruitment of new managing director and suspension of the acting boss.

The current acting MD Stephen Ligawa has been sent on compulsory leave pending reorganisation of the top management.

Ligawa has been sent on compulsory leave for three months. It was not immediately established why the board had sent him on compulsory leave.

Ligawa had taken over from Benard Otieno two years ago. He has been acting all this time without being confirmed. Otieno was hounded out of office over an alleged sugar import scandal, a matter still under investigation.

But hiring of the new MD was temporarily suspended after some interested parties went to Court and injuncted the process as purportedly flawed, thus throwing the new hiring process into disarray.

Earlier, the firm’s board of directors chaired by former Awendo MP Jared Kopiyo shortlisted 14 individuals for the position of MD.

In light of the litigation, the firm has now appointed Oluoch to act as the MD temporarily as they wait for the legal verdict of the case in Court. “We have appointed Oluoch to act in the meantime,’’ Kopiyo said.