Kenya Tea Development Authority (KTDA) Holding board has elected Chege Kirundi as its new national chairman.
Kirundi will replace Enos Njeru who was holding the position. Eric Chepkwony will retain his position as the vice chairman.
Kirundi was a board member for Zone Three in Murang’a County and has spearheaded the tea reforms in the country, which saw the enactment of the Tea Act 2020.
He holds a law degree from the University of Nairobi and Diploma in Law from the Kenya School of Law.
He is also an advocate of the High Court of Kenya, a qualified Notary Public, a certified Public Secretary (CPS), a Commissioner of Oaths and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIP).
Kirundi has served as a State Counsel in the Attorney General’s Chambers and is currently a private legal practitioner with Kirundi & Company Advocates.
He is a member of several distinguished institutions in Kenya, among them the Law Society of Kenya. He is also the chairman of Kiru Tea Factory Company PLC.
KTDA is a private company owned by about 600,000 smallholder tea farmers spread across 16 tea-growing counties in Kenya.
The farmers are shareholders in 54 tea companies that own KTDA (H) and its 9 subsidiary companies including Chai Trading Company Limited, KTDA (Management Services), Majani Insurance Brokers, Kenya Tea Packers Limited, Greenland Fedha Limited, KTDA Foundation, Tea Machinery and Engineering Company Ltd, KTDA Power Company Limited, KTDA (MS) and Chai Logistics Centre.
The Kenya Tea Development Authority was established in 1964 under the Agriculture Act (Cap 318) Section 91, Legal Notice No. 42, replacing the Special Crops Development Authority.
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