Meru Senator who is also Senate committee chairman on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries Kiraitu Murungi (left) and Kenya United Small Scale Tea Owners Association (KUSSTO) Secretary General George Kinyua at Kionyo market where they addressed tea farmers on August 10, 2015. They said that the price of tea is expected to rise this year, but Murungi told Kinyua to stop lying to farmers that the prices will rise to Sh100 per kilograms.