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We will not relent on coffee reforms, State warns cartels

Cooperatives Cabinet Secretary Simon Chelugui. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

The government will not relent on coffee reforms in a bid to rein in cartels in the sector, Cooperatives Cabinet Secretary Simon Chelugui has vowed.

The CS told coffee farmers earlier this week that the government is aware that private profiteers "who have controlled the market and set whatever prices they wanted to pay for our coffee are not happy with these reforms."

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