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Kericho senator seeks to sue multinationals selling off businesses

Senate Majority Leader Aaron Cheruiyot at Parliament Buildings, Nairobi, May 3, 2023. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Kericho Senator Aaron Cheruiyot is preparing a class action suit against multinationals selling off their businesses without the consent or concurrence of the locals and the County governments whose land they use on lease.

This is after the troubled tea multinational James Finlay announced a surprise exit from the Kenyan market after offloading an 85 per cent stake to a Sri Lankan firm Browns Investment PLC.

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