Iron out issues over Del Monte land lease

The renewal of the lease for fruit processing firm Del Monte land played out in last year’s governors’ elections in Kiambu and Murang’a counties with several contenders giving conditions to be met before the renewal of the expired lease. The 10,000-acre piece of land straddles the two counties.

A year later and with elections settled, it has fallen on Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu and Mwangi Wa Iria, his Murang’a County counterpart, to take or reject the lease to the land mostly used for growing pineapples for the local and export markets. Kenya is the world’s fifth largest pineapple exporter.