Wednesday October 2, 2019 - A section of Mt Kenya
leaders have asked President Uhuru Kenyatta to sack Trade Cabinet Secretary,
Peter Munya, and his Agriculture counterpart, Mwangi Kiunjuri, for failing
coffee and tea farmers in the region.
Addressing a Press Conference on Wednesday, the over 20 lawmakers accused
Munya of failing the President in the manner he is handling the issue of
marketing tea and coffee resulting into farmers fetching reduced prices every
year.
The legislators also faulted Kiunjuri for allowing exploitation of poor
farmers at the expense of known brokers making a killing at the Kenya Tea
Development Authority.
“Where you see smoke there is fire,” Kuria said when asked if sponsoring
impeachment of the Cabinet Secretaries involved is part of their strategy.
“We are demanding better prices for our tea, we want the Government to
start taking our farmers seriously,” added Kiharu MP, Ndindi Nyoro.
Mathira MP, Rigathi Gachagua, said Uhuru meant well for both tea and
coffee farmers but he is being intentionally let down by members of his Cabinet
entrusted with the mandate of streamlining the ailing sector.
“Since Munya was given the Trade docket, he has never set foot in any tea
factory to engage with the farmers all they do is to appoint task forces of
technocrats who have no idea.”
“We voted for this Government to a man yet the CS given the
mandate is sleeping on the job,” Rigathi said.
The Kenyan DAILY POST
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