Employees of the Kenya Meat Commission, Athi River plant, have lauded the government for signing the business deal with Uganda.
Addressing journalists at the facility on Monday, the workers led by their spokesman, Joseph Githinji, said the deal would improve sales of Kenyan meat and its products, thereby improving living standards of workers and other stakeholders in the meat industry.
"We us workers of KMC support the government for signing the business agreement with Uganda because it is geared towards benefiting stakeholders in the beef industry, including workers," said Githinji.
According to Githinji, Kenyan industries are faced with problems such as lack of enough market and therefore the agreement would offer a good business opportunity to the two countries.
Githinji argued that lack of proper markets for meat and other related products was one of the major challenges which affected operations of the company.
He said if the deal is well embraced, suppliers of goats, sheep and cattle to the KMC and other related companies would have alternative markets thus giving them opportunities to bargain for better prices for their products.
The workers said politicians should not politicise the business deal arguing it was for best interest of farmers and local members of the public.
Kenya Meat Commission has for ages been faced with sustainability problems, a situation which has in several incidences seen workers demonstrate and even down their tools for allegedly failing to be paid their dues, gratuities among other benefits.