New KPCU: MPs demand to know directors of new planters' union

New KPCU offices along Haille Selassie Avenue in Nairobi, Kenya on May 10, 2020. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Lawmakers at a parliamentary caucus retreat on coffee, held in Machakos County, Tuesday demanded to know the directors of the New Kenya Planters Cooperative Union (KPCU).

The MPs, drawn from coffee growing areas, also queried the involvement of former Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani and his Agriculture counterpart Peter Munya in the picking of the company's trustees.

Led by Githunguri MP Gathoni Wamuchomba, the legislators urged Cooperatives Cabinet Secretary Simon Chelugui to intervene in the affairs of the new KPCU to ensure coffee farmers, who own shares in the union do not lose their assets.