Can the courts uproot cartels from troubled coffee sector?

Coffee farmers get advice on how to boost production during a field day in Nyeri. The sector is tightly controlled by cartels. [File, Standard]

When President Uhuru Kenyatta received a coffee task force report last year, many believed that the country had woken up and smelled the coffee.

Farmers would finally be saved from the faceless cartels working in cahoots with some Government functionaries to fleece them and ensure they remained poor.