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Tough questions as CS Mithika Linturi claims fertiliser is good

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Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mithika Linturi. [Bonbiface Okendo, Standard]

Barely days after the Kenya Bureau of Standards suspended eight employees over the issuance of certification and marks of quality to two companies linked to the sub-standard fertiliser and Kels Chemicals Company's licence having been suspended, Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mithika Linturi is sticking to his guns there is no fake fertiliser.

Many farmers across the country have however narrated a different story saying whatever they were supplied with was not fertiliser. Linturi, on Monday, denied the existence of fake fertiliser saying there has been reported a case of 3,000 bags of substandard fertilisers in the market and that the ministry was ready to compensate affected farmers.

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