{"id":34912,"date":"2021-09-10T16:53:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T16:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/?p=34912"},"modified":"2021-09-10T15:07:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T15:07:23","slug":"ktda-boss-lerionka-tiampati-opts-for-early-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ktda-boss-lerionka-tiampati-opts-for-early-exit","title":{"rendered":"KTDA boss Lerionka Tiampati opts for early exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\">Kenya<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Long-serving Kenya Tea Development Agency CEO Samuel Lerionka Tiampati has left the company effective September 9.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Friday, KTDA announced that Tiampati&#8217;s application for an early exit before the expiry of his contract was approved by the board this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Prior to his exit, Tiampati was on compulsory leave and his position had been filled by Wilson Muthaura in an acting capacity,&#8221; KTDA communications said.<\/p>\n<p>Tiampati joined KTDA as the Managing Director in 2004 from Kenya Tea Packers Limited (Ketepa) where he served as the CEO of the tea packing subsidiary company which is majority-owned by KTDA.<\/p>\n<p>Tiampati was among KTDA officials who were questioned by the DCI over management and farmers&#8217; claims they had misspent their money on lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>The other four were John Omanga in charge of Legal Affairs, Brown Kanampiu (Procurement), Samuel Rugut (Finance) and Lincoln Munyao (Audit).<\/p>\n<p>They had been summoned to the office along Kiambu Road in Nairobi for questioning about management issues reportedly leading to poor returns for farmers.<\/p>\n<p><b>Edited by D Tarus<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. 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