The Senate Standing Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries visited Embu County on a fact-finding mission as it intensified its probe into the distribution of alleged counterfeit fertilizer across the country.

The committee, led by Chairperson James Kamau Murango (Kirinyaga), visited the Embu National Cereals and Produce Board’s store from which 2,320 bags of the suspected GPC counterfeit fertilizer—labelled KEL Green NPK 10.26.20—had been sold and dispatched.