UK citizens have raised concerns over Kenyan avocados retailing in their supermarkets, linking them to brutal crimes committed in the home country. According to reports published in the British media, guards working for Kakuzi, a farming estate in Kenya owned by British tycoons, are accused of extreme violence against the local residents. Since 2009, 79 claims have been made against the farm, with some extreme ones including battering a 28-year-old to death for stealing avocados at the farm. The farm argued that its crops need to be protected from theft, given avocados are among the most valuable plant crops. Two years earlier, on September 3, 2016, two journalists sustained injuries after they were allegedly clobbered by Kakuzi company guards during a demonstration in Murang’a county.

Source: Daily Nation October 11, 2020 14:37 UTC