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Rogue tea factory workers tamper with weighing machines

Tea bags at a factory. [Kibata Kihu, Standard]

Kiambu County government has unearthed a scheme in local and multinational tea factories where rogue workers manipulate weighing machines to defraud farmers.

Several employees from the three factories in Githunguri and Lari areas are already in custody awaiting trial for the scam estimated to have cost farmers millions of shillings in income.

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