Over 2,000 left jobless as State suspends operations at Nyayo tea zone

A section of the over 2,000 harvesting purple tea at Nyayo Tea zone at Maasai Mau Forest. Government has suspended the operations at the about 2,000 acre plantation. [Robert Kiplagat/Standard]

More than 2,000 Nyayo Tea Zone workers have been kicked out of plantations on the edge of Mau Forest following a Government directive.

A contingent of security personnel drawn from the Kenya Forest Service (KFS), Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and county rangers yesterday invaded the tea zone and chased the workers away.