In a paid advert, the receiver managers detailed the items for sale but also indicated that the close to 125 hectares where the company sits would not be sold.
More than 3,000 former workers of the troubled Karuturi flower farm in Kenaya were surprised to learn of the sale of the firm's after property in the media.
The department of lands in Siaya County has recommended that a portion of the contested Yala swamp lands currently occupied by US-based Dominion Farms be set aside for the community.
In India, Karuturi is being accused of sexual harassment while in Africa his struggling flower business in Kenya and Ethiopia has withered – first over tax arrears and debts and later over land deals gone wrong.
Indian businessman Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi has been booked for allegedly sexually harassing a 23-year-old woman staffer of a spa centre in Bengaluru and abusing policemen who rushed to her help.
Karuturi Flower Farm in Naivasha has started negotiations for an out of court settlement with its creditors. The move is expected to kick-start the revival of the flower farm which was put under receivership in 2014.
US company Dominion Group could be preparing to leave Kenya after 15 years of running a multi-billion farming project at Yala in Siaya County as its CEO Calvin Burges has written letters to employees telling them of plans to close down the business.
A Siaya County leader and a community lobby group have demanded a thorough audit of an American-owned rice farm's financials before it is allowed to exit the region.
