A group of dairy farmers from Nyangusu town in Kisii County have urged the county government to help them resolve financial crisis bedevilling the sector.
Nyangusu Dairy Company farmers say the business they are highly dependent on has been ruined by alleged misappropriation of funds by the company officials.
Speaking at Nyangusu market during an impromptu meeting on Sunday, they condemned officials for allegedly selling a company truck that was transporting milk for processing besides failing to pay them since July.
According to them, the officials have since disappeared and efforts to trace them have failed since some of them are said to have travelled out of the country.
“The Nyangusu dairy farmers’ company is in a deep financial crisis and this is affecting us negatively. Our officials have since run away and it is difficult to trace them since some of the information we have is that they might have travelled out of the country,” said Eric Mission on behalf of the farmers.
They urged the government to chip in and help by freezing some of the bank accounts owned by the five officials in a bid to rescue some of the resources of the company in which they are shareholders.
“We owned this company of transporting milk as a group of 20 people but five of us have misbehaved. The government should help us trace them and recover our assets and some of the debts that they owe us,” he said.
Nyangusu dairy farmers’s group is said to own at least 10 hectares of land in the neighbouring Maasai Mara and the officials in question whose chairman is Peter Matoke are said to have disappeared with the Tittle deeds.