Kenya: PS Orders 6 Tea Factory Directors to Vacate Office After Protests

Six directors at the Michiimukuru Tea Factory in Tigania East, Meru County, have been ordered to vacate their seats to allow for a probe into the factory’s mismanagement of funds claims.

Paul Rono, the Agriculture Principal Secretary (PS), ordered their immediate departure when he visited the factory on a fact-finding trip on Saturday, November 23.

“Directors should step aside and the ones that have been placed in interim capacity should stay and not steal the farmers’ money,” Rono…