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State firm invests Sh300 million in Nicholas Biwott-owned tea factory

Organic Growers and Packers (EPZ) Ltd promoter Haren Patel (left) and ICDC Board members led by Chairman Martin Muragu (3rd left) are taken through the manufacture and packaging of mango and banana puree for export at the factory in Malindi County. ICDC has part-financed the factory.

NAIROBI: A Government investment firm has pumped Sh300 million into a tea factory owned by former politician Nicholas Biwott.

Industrial & Commercial Development Corporation (ICDC) expects to commission Sisibo Tea Factory in October in a joint deal with Mr Biwott.

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