Former Uasin Gishu gubernatorial aspirant and businessman Zedekiah Kiprop Bundotich popularly known as Buzeki has sent a plea to President Uhuru Kenyatta after a ban on the current Sh1,000 notes.
Buzeki who thanked the head of state on the move to render the notes useless by October 1st this year further urged president Kenyatta to ban all the cartels who have been frustrated farmers.
He wants all those who have been importing maize and other agricultural products with the aim of benefiting themselves blocked from doing their usual business.
“Thank you Uhuru Kenyatta for smoking out cash hidden in the strong rooms of graft chiefs and their apostles! Now ban all cartels from importing maize, sugar, wheat, milk powder. Save the farmers. Wako kwa magoti. Government to import for strategic reserves only!,“ the chairman of Chemelil Sugar company tweeted.
Buzeki has been at the forefront in defending farmers who have in the recent past been affected by several corruption scandals in the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) which has led to lack of payments for their deliveries, low maize prices and expensive and inadequate farm inputs.
The government directive on the change of Kenyan currency was aimed at reducing the high level of corruption and the circulation of fake notes in the country.