Michuki’s Daughter Lands Top Appointment at UK-Based Tea Lobby

Michuki’s Daughter Lands Top Appointment at UK-Based Tea Lobby

Kenyan financial analyst Wanja Michuki has been appointed as the Africa regional manager of Ethical Tea Partnership (ETP), a London-based fair standards lobby.

ETP, which was founded in 1997, works with tea producers and tea companies to improve the sustainability of the tea industry and address the plight of tea workers in the world.

Wanja will be based in Nairobi to lead teams in Kenya, Malawi, and Rwanda in overseeing reforms aimed at upgrading the livelihoods for small-scale farmers and workers.

"In a brand new role for ETP, as Strategy Lead she is responsible for developing high-level, strategic relationships with businesses, governments and development partners in Africa to enable us to go further, faster in tea-growing regions," ETP said in a statement.

"Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Wanja will also travel to Malawi and Rwanda to support these regions."

Wanja, a Columbia University graduate, is a daughter of the late Kenyan cabinet minister and politician John Michuki.

"Most immediately, I am working with the UK and Kenyan teams and ETP’s corporate members and primary partners, such as Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA), and donors, to meet some of the needs of smallholder farmers and workers as they adjust to the lifestyle and behavioral changes demanded by Covid-19," said Wanja on her appointment.

"In the medium and long term, we will be supporting programmes and reforms in Kenya, Malawi, and Rwanda to create thriving, socially just, and environmentally sustainable tea sectors in these countries. Each country’s tea sector has its own unique set of characteristics."

Kenya is ranked as the second-largest exporter of black tea in the world behind China and ahead of Sri Lanka and India. Tea is one of Kenya’s biggest foreign income earner. 

 

Comments

Seneca (not verified)     Mon, 04/20/2020 @ 10:35am

Okay. What dos she know about Kenya's tea farmers? Or Pickers? I hear James Finlay exited the Kenyan market. True or not?

Sei (not verified)     Mon, 04/20/2020 @ 07:24pm

In reply to by Seneca (not verified)

Michuki was the largest tea and coffee farmers in Kenya. She managed one of her father’s tea farm for several years and profit grow exponentially every year she was in charge.

Somethings are best learnt through 🖐 hands on experience! Don’t be jealous like you always are whenever a Kikuyu is mentions near the pub where you live!

Tribalism is a 😷 sickening disease and you have the worst case of it in your damn blossoms!

Imkgoogo (not verified)     Tue, 04/21/2020 @ 07:39am

In reply to by Sei (not verified)

What happened to the tea farm? Kenyans are obsessed with being employed. Kenyattas, Odingas, Matibas, Karumes, Nyachaes, Ongeris, add the former VP. All living their employer status, to become civil employees. If there were no kickbacks,none of them would be employees.

Serure (not verified)     Mon, 04/20/2020 @ 11:06pm

In reply to by Seneca (not verified)

You are just consumed by jealousy of a fine lady you don’t even know. Worst still, she would not have the light of the day for you! You are not in her Social and economic class, period!

Tom Mosigisi (not verified)     Mon, 04/20/2020 @ 03:45pm

The first line introduces her as a financial analyst.Those who know about tea industry have stolen enough.Lets pray for her to make it perfectly

Kujipanga Kibowen (not verified)     Mon, 04/20/2020 @ 04:25pm

Who cares?! There are millions of educated young Kenyans without jobs and we are here airing out the looters and "their fake" credentials>>> They stole enough to buy their way out of 254.

Vivian (not verified)     Mon, 04/20/2020 @ 07:28pm

In reply to by Kujipanga Kibowen (not verified)

This mad man 👨 is now waking up from the woods because a kikuyu name has come up! This nigger was noted in another text insulting Kikuyus for no apparent reason! Tell us about your fake engineering degree and leave others alone!!!

Suzie (not verified)     Mon, 04/20/2020 @ 07:32pm

In reply to by Kujipanga Kibowen (not verified)

Come on buster! Surely you will care if a kale name like Kiino was the one selected! Give us a damn break fool!!! Kales are the worst murderous thieves the world have ever know - ask DP Ruto where you all need to give stealing!!

Ole Ntulele (not verified)     Mon, 04/20/2020 @ 11:02pm

In reply to by Kujipanga Kibowen (not verified)

Boy you never learn anything in your life. You know tribalism iko huko damu yako kabisa! You seem to do have a born to pick with the Kikuyus.

But, unfortunately you have nothing you can do over their successes! A Kilenjin talking about others stealing is just hilarious because that is exactly what you are famous for; mainly stealing chicken!

Can it get any worse than that? You know the damn answer!! Worry about your kalenjin thieves and let go others. Very shameful!

Bet (not verified)     Tue, 04/21/2020 @ 02:29am

In reply to by Kujipanga Kibowen (not verified)

And who is mafi ya dog that is referring to others as “they stole enough of mugotio” to buy your dummy simple mind? Who are they? Kalenjin?

You are still a herder boy that was recently plucked out of the bush where your body was covered with cow-ticks and now you are talking crap?

How did you get to Canada because I know they would not have allowed you to pass through Nairobi with the kind of ignorance which is deeply rooted in your community? I will not even fake trying to get along with your kind; you are still way beneath me!, and you should piga magoti while I pass by.

Oh, now you don’t care because a beautiful and wealthy kikuyu woman have been appointed to be in charge? Kikuyu women work very hard to be successful unlike your kind of men (Ruto) who have stolen Kenyans blind!

You have a damn bad habit of attacking kikuyu tribe and especially our lovely women! I will bring my 98 years young grandma to Conner you in the dark ally and teach you a physical ass whipping lesson while your dirty trousers are below your knees!! Bure kabisa wewe mwenda wazimu.

Toni (not verified)     Tue, 04/21/2020 @ 02:32am

In reply to by Kujipanga Kibowen (not verified)

Keep you bigoted foolish comment to your freaking self if you ain’t got anything positive to say, you maggot! Stop attacking kikuyu women you damn coward!

Mugumia (not verified)     Tue, 04/21/2020 @ 01:23am

Kundis Wanja. G get it like a Michuki
As a small scale farmers in Kenya, a slave of KTDA, a money maker for Britam (Kinga Ya Mkulima) and a staunch member of Green Land Fedha, kindly help budget for me:-
Monthly Kg 400, KTDA pay @16ksh per Kg. I pay 2.50/- per kg for farm input back to KTDA. Pay 10/- Per Kg to farmhand. And pay back 6/- to GLF per Kg. Rem to pay 250@ for Isurance to KYM for my wife, thee children and myself. 'We are Slaves in our own farms'

Seneca (not verified)     Tue, 04/21/2020 @ 08:10am

For the Frothing Kikuyu defenders, this lady is not representing Kikuyus. She is representing a section of Africa. It is a fair question to want to know her credentials in that field. Questioning someone who only happens to be Kikuyu (accidentally) is not equivalent to hating Kikuyus. The Kenyatta family did not steal for Kikuyus. There are many poor Kikuyus roaming Kenya; to include Gatundu. Similarly, Moi or Ruto did not steal for Kalenjin nation. Baringo is poor and right now people are dying from mudslides. To tell off Mutahi Kagwe for presenting false statements, is not an attack on Kikuyus. Kenyans are succeeding, and some did not need stealing families to do so. I know directors in big US corps; Kenyans, not from central, not from political thievery. And stop using several names to rail about the non-existent tribalism.

Marie (not verified)     Tue, 04/21/2020 @ 05:31pm

In reply to by Seneca (not verified)

You are not interested in her credentials except that you are taking a swipe at her simply because she is a kikuyu! You don’t even know her background but you keep talking about a financial analyst you don’t even know! Well she is not a CNA like you and she is not interested in doing what you do.

You are the same lonely woman who has been known to insult Kikuyus and Luhyas. Don’t lie that you know directors from whatever place in Kenya! And is it unique for any Kenyan to manage a corporation?? Managing institutions by Kenyans is as old as the the BC! Those who are speaking here are not defending any body. Kikuyus do not need to be defended by you or any other person! Has we waited for you defend us, we would be in a hell of trouble!

Kujipanga Kibowen (not verified)     Tue, 04/21/2020 @ 05:05pm

@Vivian & Suzie; more educated and accomplished than your fake refuge status! Slay Queens & Gold Diggers! One of you visited my consulting firm asking if I can support some made-up orphanage somewhere in 254?
I guess filing for fake refuge status has been exposed! This explains why some folks pray for violence in Kenya so they can continue lying about filing for refuge status! Na mko wengi! akina slay queens Vivian & Suzie! Endeleeni tuu!

Seneca (not verified)     Tue, 04/21/2020 @ 07:30pm

In reply to by Kujipanga Kibowen (not verified)

Hehehehe! Nlipatia mwingine handbag nikienda loo...waaa! Imagine...a fellow mwananchi...aka-swipe my $20. Ptho!!!
Then ananiletea eti nichange cashapp ya cremation...eeeiii! She thought I was daft kumuachia uizi.

Suzie (not verified)     Wed, 04/22/2020 @ 03:12am

In reply to by Kujipanga Kibowen (not verified)

Don’t lie you nigger! Your mother organized the 2007 violence aimed at killing women and children in Kiambaa church; she told you to burn the church and run. But when we had enough of your foolishness, cut off of your hanging ears and made you eat them. Go look after your bumped cows in Uasin Gishu, and feed the dead dogs to your ugly men looking sisters. You can start the violence but we will put your mutiny out in half a minute by circumcising your small stuff. Canada is not your damn ugly mother’s country you black faced coal looking creature! And what is refugee status there? I don’t need to leave Kenya to go live in grisly cold weather.

Adell (not verified)     Wed, 04/22/2020 @ 11:35am

In reply to by Suzie (not verified)

What are the hanging ears!? Are these the cuts the Kikuyus call “ Curia matu” on kalenjin ears that have been curved with a panga to district the ugliness of the face? Anyway, this kibogoyo man here is off to the deep end! He is one of those kalenjin who killed Kikuyus with poisoned arrows in 2007. Folks got to keep close watch on this one. He will do it again in 2022 when Ruto loses the elections!

Rose T (not verified)     Wed, 04/22/2020 @ 03:56pm

In reply to by Adell (not verified)

Hague is still well and live waiting for Ruto! Don’t worry, they will get him in 2022 because they know he is not disciplined enough to stay out of trouble. Next Hague visit will involve Ruto, Sudi, Didi Nyoro, Kuria and Murkomen - plainly in that numerical order!

Kujipanga Kibowen (not verified)     Fri, 05/15/2020 @ 01:21pm

She is supposed to market Kiambu Tea! What happened to young, skinny, and beautiful people! They had to go and dig out a brick to market their CHAI! Alas!

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