Directors finally take control of tea factories
By The Mountain Journal Crew
A new chapter has been opened in the tea sector as directors elected three months ago have started holding strategic meetings in their factories jointly with KTDA officials.
Despite tough resistance, the senior employees of the agency embraced the meetings convened by the directors they had earlier ignored as outsiders in the tea processing and marketing docket.
At Ikumbi tea factory, in Murang’a, the directors met where they charted the way into making arrangements on how the mini bonus will be paid this month, to support the livelihood of the small-scale growers.
In the meeting, accounting to director Jerald Ngumba there were senior managers which were described cordial.
Issues on nine months accounts and factory operations were part of the agenda,” said Ngumba.
It is the first time the defiant directors attended the meeting after the new agency management chaired by David Muni sent six officials led by Lerionka Tiampati on a three months compulsory leave pending forensic investigations into their operations.
Two weeks ago, Murang’a County directors and the factory managers met in a joint meeting that was chaired by Irungu Nyakera who convened the Tea Pricing Task Force Committee investigating concentrating on how to bring the cost of production down for the interest of the growers.
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