NAKUMATT SUPPLIERS CALL FOR GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION ON THEIR DUES

In Summary

• The supermarket was put under receivership last month. 
• The chairman of both Nakumatt and Uchumi suppliers’ union, Mr Joseph Mlay, told The Citizen that a team visited the supermarket headquarters in Kenya to have talks with the management on how they will be paid. 

Dar es Salaam. Following Nakumatt Supermarket being put under receivership, its former suppliers are calling on the government to intervene and ensure they are paid their dues, amounting to Sh 4.7 billion.

The supermarket was put under receivership last month.

The chairman of both Nakumatt and Uchumi suppliers’ union, Mr Joseph Mlay, told The Citizen that a team visited the supermarket headquarters in Kenya to have talks with the management on how they will be paid.

However, he said the management declined to talk to them on grounds that they were put under receivership since January 22, this year.

"The management declined to talk to us because they have been put under receivership and therefore cannot make any decisions," he said.

In view of the development, he called on the government to intervene and find out how the owner of the supermarket could be made to pay the money he owes suppliers.

The Citizen