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Coffee reforms standoff persists as CS appoints transition team

DP Rigathi Gachagua holds a meeting with Cooperatives CS Simon Chelugui and other coffee stakeholders on November 14, 2023. [DPCS]

The appointment of the nine-member committee to steer the transition of the Nairobi Coffee Exchange (NCE) to the Coffee Exchange Ltd has attracted mixed reactions.

The Cabinet Secretary for the Cooperatives and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Development Simon Chelugui recently appointed Kenneth Gitonga from Meru Union Coffee Mills, coffee brokerage operator Peter Githinji of Alliance Berries Ltd, Amos Mamboleo of Mt Elgon Coffee Cooperative Union Mills to steer the reforms.

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