A human rights activist Boniface Mwangi has once again bashed out President Uhuru Kenyatta claiming that the Milk Bill which is currently before the National Assembly is a project that will only benefit Uhuru.
In a post on his official Facebook page, Mwangi said the bill will add no value to dairy farmers in the country.
According to the activist, the Milk Bill will only benefit the Brookside, a milk processing company believed to be owned by the Kenyatta family.
“President Uhuru Kenyatta milk bill 2019 is to benefit his family’s milk business and hand them full monopoly. Once this Kenyatta Milk Bill becomes law, a fine of Ksh 500,000 will be slapped on any farmer who flouts the Brookside milk monopoly rules,” reads part of Mwangi’s post on Facebook.
The activist further shared several points he said were a simplified version for the bill. They include;
1) Farmers must first pasteurise their milk at the farm gate before selling to consumers/neighbours
2) In the absence of pasteurisation, farmers must take all their milk to a cooling facility
3) Farmers are prohibited from selling their milk to hawkers
4) Price of milk from the dairy farmer will be based on quality, not quantity. The buyer will determine the quality
5) Farmers will be held criminally liable should their milk have contaminants like aflatoxins. Bear in mind that this is something the farmer has no control over. Aflatoxins and other contaminants in milk can be derived from purchased feed
6) A farmer will sell his milk to only one processor with whom he has a contract
7) Processors are free to import milk at any time there is no enough milk from the local market. They will determine when the milk is not enough.
8) A fine of Ksh 500,000 will be slapped on farmers flouting the rules.
It is not the first time Mwangi is attacking the head of state, there are several occassions with the recent being bashing President Kenyatta for giving Amina Mohamed Sports docket.
While taking to his Twitter account Mwangi wrote saying, “President @UKenyatta is applying lipstick on a corpse. #CabinetReshuffle.