By ANITA CHEPKOECHMore by this AuthorA single auditor has been checking the accounts of some tea factories under the national agency for 15 years, contrary to laws capping the time to three years. A report compiled by an ad-hoc committee of the County Assembly of Kericho said such unlawful acts compromise accountability of the (would be) farmer owned agency. The report also cited under-representation at the Mombasa auction and the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) board for Kericho’s woes. The committee said it wasn’t practical that all (over 20) Kenya Tea Development Agency factories from the region were processing low quality tea that occasioned poor bonuses. This implies that we do not need as many satellite tea factories as the factory boards are propagating,” the committee said.

Source: Daily Nation April 17, 2018 09:00 UTC