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Wilting rose: How Karuturi coughed up his flower empire

Some of the greenhouses in Naivasha based Karuturi flower farm which was put under receivership three years ago leaving over 3,000 workers jobless.

In the last week of June 2015, Nakuru County Commissioner received a rare complaint from a player in the flower industry.

It was not just strange but unprecedented.

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