Players in the Miraa sector will wait until November 17 to know the fate consumption periods for the stimulant.
On Friday, High Court judge Chacha Mwita ordered the Miraa Farmers and Traders Association (Kemifata) to serve NACADA with court documents for a hearing slated for November 17 when he will give further orders.
Through lawyer Henry Kurauka, Kemifata argued that anti-narcotics agency had no powers to regulate the times for chewing of miraa.
But on Wednesday, Justice Mwita dismissed a case filed by miraa farmers over the control of chewing time.
In his ruling that angered miraa consumers and traders in Meru, Mwita dismissed Kemifata's case for failing to attend court.Lawyer Kurauka however defended their absence in court and said they had not been given a notice.“The case was listed by Court Registry on Wednesday without notice to me or Nacada lawyers. Therefore none of us was present and we learnt of it in the Standard Newspaper,” Kurauka said.An optimistic Kurauka assured miraa consumers that the time limitation imposed by NASADA will never be effected as the product is a stimulant.