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Gachagua: Cartels have infiltrated government but will be defeated

Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua is coronated as a Borana elder, by Borana Council of elders leader Buke Gollo. [DPCS]

Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has accused a section of government officials of colluding with coffee cartels.

Speaking during a fundraiser for Kaelo Methodist Church in Kenya (MCK) at Laare in Meru on Sunday, Mr Gachagua said coffee cartels had been entrenched in the system for five decades, and it has been a challenge defeating them.

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