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Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has now stated that he will assist tea farmers in preventing twilight girls from flooding tea zones when annual bonuses are distributed.
The girls are known to book local hotels during October, when tea bonuses are released, in order to entice men and defraud them of their money.
Shopping malls are usually packed with call girls weeks before the bonuses are announced, as they prepare to entice primarily elderly men.
Men have been drugged in bars and have lost large sums of money, according to reports from across the county.
Tea farmers received Sh44.15 billion in bonuses last year, the highest payment ever, and Gachagua expects the payment to be even higher this year.
“I will fight them this time round. I will not allow them to take the bonuses that we have fought for from our farmers. Let them stay away in the towns where they usually are. Our women here are good Christians,” he said while speaking at Muthithi Catholic Church in Murang’a County.
According to Gachagua, farmers work hard all year to earn a profit from their farms, and it is unfair for the money to be taken by people who did not contribute to the effort.
He noted that agricultural reforms have resulted in more money going to farmers and encouraged them to use the money to improve their living conditions.
Previously, prices would fall to as low as Sh20, prompting many farmers to uproot their crops and venture into other types of farming.
He said the government has begun plans to waive debts of up to Sh23 billion incurred by coffee farms as part of the sector's reforms.