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MP demands coffee auction be suspended

Manyatta MP Gitonga Mukunji. [David Gichuru, Standard]

An MP has asked the government to suspend the sale of coffee at the Mombasa Coffee Auction market.

Manyatta MP Gitonga Mukunji wants the auction suspended for at least two months to give room for the enactment of proper legislation that will protect farmers from exploitation by coffee cartels.

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