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  HOW KTDA HAS BEEN STEALING FROM TEA FARMERS

  The Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) has driven tea farmers nuts, if pictures and videos doing rounds on social media, showing farmers uprooting tea bushes from their farms, are anything to go by. Farmers uprooting tea bushes KTDA handles between 160 million and 200 million kilos of processed tea annually. About 60

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  KTDA Pays Influencers To Hide Incompetence

  KTDA managing director Lerionka Tiampati. The Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) is in deep shit and has paid social media influencers so as to sanitize its crime and corruption. KTDA which has stolen from farmers from time immemorial has bought a few Twitter chokoraas to ran a narrative that is evil, covering its m

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  KTDA directors lose seats

  [ad_1] Kenya Tea Development Agency director’s elections saw a number representing Kapset and Litein factories being shown the door. Former longserving director John Terer, failed to dethrone board of director’s chairman, Raymond Milgo. Milgo scooped a total of 15,075 while Terer got 8,919 votes. In Mogogosiek Tea Fa

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  State targets brokers, KTDA in plan to rescue tea farmers

  [ad_1] The tea industry is set for radical changes if directives issued yesterday by President Uhuru Kenyatta are implemented. The industry has been grappling with numerous challenges ranging from corruption in the agencies that manage the industry to the proliferation of brokers who make a killing at the expense of fa

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  Corrupt KTDA makes first move against tea reforms

  KTDA managing director Lerionka Tiampati. The Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) has moved to court, as expected, to fight against reforms in the tea sector. Maybe, they even don't need to, because the integrity of those already elected to the National Steering Committee on the Implementation of Tea Reforms in Kenya

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  Why MPs are lining for bribes from KTDA cartels

  The National Assembly's committee on agriculture is in the pockets of cartels from Kenya Tea Development Agency who are dishing out millions of shillings to ensure the tea Bill that is ready for final reading is scuttled. The cartels have divided the 18 members of the committee down in the middle. The once vocal membe

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  How CS Munya Oversaw Massive Looting and Thuggery In KTDA

  Former Agriculture CS Peter Munya with KTDA Board Chairman, David Ichoho, during an induction ceremony for KTDA Holdings' new board members held at a Nairobi hotel on 7th July, 2021. Looking on are Company Secretary, Patrick Ngunjiri (extreme right) and KTDA Holdings Vice Chairman, Dr Wesley Koech. An influential Twitt

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  Nothing changed at KTDA as tea sector now riddled with corruption

  The much-touted reforms at the Kenya Tea Development Agency Holdings Limited (KTDA) is dead. Tea farmers and factories are crying over the mistreatment and runaway corruption by the new directors. Kenya leads the world in black tea exports and the KTDA is at the centre of it all. When reforms in the sector started in

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  Former officials plan to takeover KTDA signalling failed reforms thanks to greed by new directors

  KTDA The reforms initiated at the Kenya Tea Development Agency Limited (KTDA) by Uhuru Kenyatta’s regime has now collapsed. Former KTDA officials from the Mt Kenya region, who were ousted from office, have accused the current directors of further indebting factories through bloated expenses. They say that the new di

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  KTDA's Muthaura disrespects court by failing to execute order

  The current Chief Executive Officer of the embattled Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) Mr Wilson Muthaura is in contempt of court. In a ruling by Judge B O Manani, dated December 15. The CEO was directed to reinstate the full salary of Albert Otochi and Japheth Sayi. Wilson Muthaura, CEO, KTDA The two officials, ar

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  Dispute between former and new directors at KTDA to be resolved through ADR

  The Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) methanism will be used to resolve disputes between former and new directors at the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA). This in order to resolve outstanding issues and pave the way for the implementation of the provisions of the Tea Act 2020. Mithika Linturi, Cabinet Secretary,

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  KTDA CEO Muthaura Declares War on The Court and Former Officials Alleging Backing from Ruto, Linturi

  KTDA CEO Wilson Muthaura Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) chief executive officer Wilson Muthaura has been found in contempt of court after failing to act on orders issued on reinstating the Managing Director of the Kenya Tea Packers (Ketepa) Albert Otochi and the General Manager of KTDA Power Company Japheth Sayi.

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  Tea Board of Kenya Ag. CEO Peris Mudida Dragged Into KTDA’s Scandals

  Acting Tea Board of Kenya (TBK) CEO Peris Mudida The chief executive officer of Kenya Tea Development Agency Wilson Muthaura who was recently convicted of contempt of court is fighting off fresh allegations of involvement in underworld dealings at the Mombasa Tea Auction using Chai Tea Trading Limited. At Chai Limited

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  KTDA Boss Linked to Corruption and Looting of Funds at Kapkoros Tea Factory

  KTDA CEO Wilson Muthaura Troubled Kenya Tea Development Authority (KTDA) CEO Wilson Muthaura has come under intense pressure to respond to allegations of leveraging the powerful position to protect his looting cronies at the Kapkoros Tea Factory. Directors at the Bomet-based factory are currently under investigation by

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  How Politically Motivated KTDA Directors Irregularly Approved Sh18bn Bonus to Woo Farmers

  A FILE photo of KTDA chairman David Ichoho and Group CEO Wilson Muthaura Besieged CEO Wilson Muthaura and Chairman David Ichoho have been dragged into a fresh controversy at the scandal-laden Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA). Officials in the Ministry of Agriculture are now investigating the circumstances under whi

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  KTDA Bosses Issue Panic Statement Amidst Wave of Scandals

  LEFT: KTDA Board Chairman David Ichoho RIGHT: KTDA CEO Wilson Muthaura Following our extensive coverage of the stinking rot at the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) there finally seems to be some light at the end of the tunnel. In recent weeks, we have highlighted a myriad of mega evils at the agency, ranging from me

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  KTDA CEO Muthaura eats humble pie

  KTDA CEO Wilson Muthaura The Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) has reinstated Albert Otochi as managing director of Kenya Tea Packers (Ketepa) in compliance with the court directive, business Daily Africa reports In a letter dated December 28, 2022, KTDA chief executive Wilson Muthaura informed Mr Otochi, who had b

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  Very Long Read: Genesis of Peter Munya's orchestrated KTDA State Capture

  KTDA CEO Wilson Muthaura STATE OF CURRENT AFFAIRS AT THE SMALL HOLDER TEA SECTOR KTDA AND ITS MANAGED TEA FACTORIES INTRODUCTION The last two (2) years from 2020, the Kenyan tea sector and specifically the smallholder tea sub sector has go ne through a tumultuous period . This has affected the smooth running of affairs

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  Troubled KTDA Directors Summoned to Kilimo House Over Illegal Sh18bn Azimio Tea Bonus

  LEFT: KTDA CEO Wilson Muthaura CENTRE: KTDA Group Finance and Strategy Director Simeon Rugutt RIGHT: KTDA Board Chairman David Ichoho The Ministry of Agriculture has heightened its investigations into the circumstances under which politically motivated Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) officials borrowed a Sh18.2 bil

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  Another stinking skeleton in Muthaura's KTDA closet

  KTDA CEO Wilson Muthaura KTDA should not be thrown into the dustbin by puppets to former CS Peter Munya, a major beneficiary of the loot which he received in exchange for protecting the unqualified populists who kissed his ass for top KTDA jobs. Read More: How CS Munya Oversaw Massive Looting and Thuggery In KTDA A w

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  Audit Report Ties Former KTDA Management to Ksh 600 Million Farmer Losses

  Cartels in the tea sector are believed to have invented a way of working with former Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) bosses to frustrate the new board chaired by Chege Kirundi. Audit exposes financial mismanagement at KTDA as former top officials seek to regain influence through legal fights. In a cocktail combina

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  Tea Farmers Speak Out as KTDA-Owned Lender Exposed for Predatory Loan Tactics

  A growing number of tea farmers are speaking out against what they describe as oppressive lending practices by Greenland Fedha Limited (GFL) , a microfinance institution wholly owned by the Kenya Tea Development Agency Holdings Limited (KTDA), which, though originally established to empower smallholder farmers through

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  Tea Farmers Count Losses as KTDA Bonus Payouts Fall Sharply Across Key Growing Regions

  A wave of disappointment and renewed frustration is sweeping across the country’s tea-growing regions following the release of the Kenya Tea Development Agency’s (KTDA) interim financial report for the year ending June 30, with the document showing that second payments to farmers have dropped sharply and exposed wide d

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  Farmers Back Tea Reforms

  [ad_1] Tea farmers in the country have welcomed changes proposed by President Uhuru Kenyatta aimed at reforming the tea sector in the country. On Wednesday, President Kenyatta directed the relevant agencies to probe the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA), officials accused of operating in conflict of interest and givi

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  Chai Sacco Seems To Be Struggling Financially

  Lerionka Tiampati, KTDA MD and Patron of Chai Sacco Information sent to the chief editor of this site shows that the Kenya Tea Development Authority (KTDA) owned Chai Sacco is facing financial difficulties. A client who spoke on condition of anonymity stated that he applied for a loan from the Sacco sometimes late la

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