No end to rot at cereals board as farmers continue suffering

In November 2001, I was arrested at the Kapenguria National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) stores for interviewing farmers and taking pictures of trucks and tractors that had lined up for weeks to deliver maize. Being a Friday I spent the weekend sitting on the cold floor of the cell. I was arraigned before the magistrate’s court on Monday where a Mr Tallam, who was at the time the regional NCPB manager based in Eldoret, had filed trespass charges against me.

The situation in NCPB at the time is still the same today. Unscrupulous traders were purchasing cheap maize from Sebei district in Uganda and smuggling thousands of bags to Kapenguria and Kitale through Suam and Kanyarkwat border areas.