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A section of elected leaders in the South Rift has an uphill task in convincing multinational companies to abandon tea plucking machines, which was part of their campaign promises.
It is a situation that has left the voters in a 'wait and watch' approach', given that the appellate court had made its pronouncement on the matter by upholding a High Court decision that gave the companies the green light to continue using the machines.
During the campaign season, the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) politicians wooed the electorate by firing shots at multination tea firms over the deployment of tea harvesting machines.
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