Kenya anti-tobacco crusaders fault President Ruto’s South Korea deal
Officials of the Kenya Tobacco Control Alliance addressing journalists in Nairobi on November 30, 2022. They denounced the deal Kenya’s President William Ruto made with South Korea to enhance tobacco trade. PHOTO | VINCENT OPIYO | NMG
Business and Technology Reporter in Nairobi, Kenya
Nation Media Group
A group of advocates of tobacco use control have denounced the deal Kenya’s President William Ruto made with South Korea to enhance tobacco trade, saying it will put more Kenyans at risk of diseases linked to the farming and use of the product.
The Kenya Tobacco Control Alliance (Ketca), an umbrella body of civil society organisations fighting tobacco use in the country, said the trade deal threatens to undo the progress made in reducing tobacco farming in the country.
