State investigates 'missing' coffee as millers hold over 100,000 bags

Eunice Wanjiru harvests coffee at Muthinga village in Tetu, Nyeri, on September 27, 2023. [Kibata Kihu, Standard]

As the government takes the battle to the cartels it accuses of choking the lucrative coffee sector, teams of detectives and State spies have been dispatched to a number of millers across the country.

The spies and the sleuths are part of a multi-agency team trying to unravel the mystery of the whereabouts of large amount of coffee at a time when the Nairobi Coffee Exchange has been starved of the commodity.