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Ban Tea Picking machines Atwoli urges counties

KERICHO, KENYA: Central Organization of Trade Unions (Cotu) Secretary-General Francis Atwoli has petitioned Members of County Assemblies (MCAs) in tea growing areas to draft and pass bills which would outlaw tea plucking machines.

"Some leaders in the previous government in cohorts with tea companies schemed to introduce tea plucking machines. But the time has come to reverse the retrogressive trade practice,"

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