KTDA to drop suits challenging tea reforms
The Kenya Tea Development
Authority (KTDA) has moved to drop ongoing suits challenging the implementation
of recent tea reforms.
The tea management services firm,
in public notices on Monday, indicated that factories at their upcoming Annual
General Meetings (AGMs) will have shareholders, who comprise of small-scale tea
farmers, vote on a special resolution to withdraw from the court cases.
The suits include petition E243
of 2020 whereby KTDA had sued top tea officials including the Cabinet Secretary
for Agriculture.
Additionally, growers will drop
petition M009 by a consortium of tea factories who also sued top industry
officials including the Attorney General (AG).
The proposed resolutions come as
a new management team which is allied to sector reforms takes hold of KTDA
operations.
The move is expected to receive
the backing of Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Peter Munya who has been calling
for the withdrawal of the petitions to aid in the full implementation of recent
sector reforms.
According to CS Munya, the cases
have been preventing the implementations of reforms which he views as the cure
to the sector’s woes.
55 tea factory companies managed
by KTDA are expected to hold their Annual General Meetings including the vote
to end litigation between November 16 and 30.
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