Work of the Task Force for the Development of the Miraa Industry

In the Gazette Notice No. 4420, President Kenyatta appointed an eleven member task force to spearhead a road map for the Miraa industry in Kenya to recover lost Miraa markets and get new ones among other initiatives to grow the industry and ensure that the streak of losses being suffered by farmers end. It is now two months since and merely a month to the expiration of its term, yet there has not been any communication from the Chairpersons or Joint Secretaries or the Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture about what the Task Force has been doing. No activity has been noted on the ground either leaving most of the stakeholders who had very high hopes, given the President's good will to turn the fortunes of the stakeholders, with bile in their mouths.

There have been rumors that the Task Force was held in some high end hotel in Naivasha brainstorming about how to go about their mission. This alone has caused a lot of jittery in the industry with pundits seeing no sense at all why they should sit elsewhere when there are good enough hotels in Meru County that can use the extra income. Nothing about this has been verified.