Trucks queue outside closed NCPB maize depots

Lorries and tractors carrying maize queue outside the NCPB depot in Eldoret. Some have been there for almost a week now. [Kevin Tunoi, Standard]

Long queues continue to build up outside national cereals depots two weeks after President Uhuru Kenyatta ordered them to be opened.

Frustrated farmers, who have been in the queue for almost a week now, threatened to barricade roads to protest delays in implementing the presidential directive to the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) to start buying maize.