Tea farmers seek to join KTDA case

Tea farmers from Kericho seek to join as a party in the case where KTDA wants court to bar the Competition Authority of Kenya from releasing a report on tea industry.

Kenya: The case filed by Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) against the competition watchdog over a report on cartels and price manipulation has attracted 1,000 farmers now seeking to be joined as a party.

The small-scale farmers through their lawyer Peter Wanyama claim that the agency is trying to stifle a grand case before a Kericho Court in which they are seeking to recover Sh93 billion from KTDA allegedly pinched from their earnings in the past 15 years.