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Police officers keep vigil as DCI raids Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) headquarters in Nairobi. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]
NAIROBI, KENYA: The Kenya Tea Development Authority (KTDA) says some of its operations have been crippled following a recent raid at its head office in Nairobi.
In a statement, the agency said the events commencing on April 16 disrupted the green leaf payment to farmers, procurement of fertiliser, and payment to suppliers and employees salaries.
“Our initial review of what transpired reveals that payment records of 620,000 farmers, shareholders registers, title deeds, computers servers and hard disks were unlawfully retrieved,” says the agency in a newspaper advertisement.
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Nairobi CBD Building Raided, Workers Held Hostage
Farmers Building along Moi Avenue in Nairobi that houses KTDA headquarters.
Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) offices based at Farmers Building along Moi Avenue in Nairobi were on Friday, April 16, raided by individuals who identified themselves as police officers.
In a statement, the company s corporate affairs alleged that the officers showed a Magistrate s court order as their basis of raiding the office.
In the raid, which took place in the afternoon, workers were barricaded inside their offices unable to access any other floors or exit the building. The officers have held KTDA staff and barricaded them on the respective floors. The building entry and exits have been blocked denying the employees of their constitutional freedoms, the company stated.
Wellington
Retail
Overall
vacancy over the second half of 2020 continued its upward
trend from December 2019’s low, however, the rate of
increase slowed from that evident in the first half of the
year. Total vacancy reached 7.6% in December up from the
6.7% recorded in June. The latest figure equates to an
additional 1,250 sq m of vacant space, taking the total to
11,000 sq m.
The completion of Willis Bond’s
redevelopment of the former Farmers Building at 100 Cuba
Street was the only significant addition to the CBD’s
inventory over the second half of 2020. Removal of stock for
refurbishment or earthquake strengthening however, resulted