August 4, 2008:
A new board to manage Kenya’s coffee regulator is to beappointed this week, deflating hopes that farmers could once againelect the directors.
This follows the end of the three-year tenure of the current 12directors of the Coffee Board of Kenya.
Controversy has marred appointment of a new board followingopposition by farmers to the current system which allows theminister to appoint the directors.
Agriculture minister William Ruto told
Business Daily
that while the interests of farmers would be looked into, the lawas is constituted allows the minister to appoint directors.
The current system was put in place last year through the FinanceAct of 2007 that gave the power of appointing directors to theminister.
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