President Kenyatta has ordered the immediate implementation of the maize flour price to ksh.100/2kg from the current ksh.205. The president stated that the lowering of the maize flour price to ksh.100/2kg is meant to cushion Kenyans from the high cost of living that has been witnessed in the past few months.
While adressing the state of the Nation from Nairobi’s State House, the president stated that the move is part of the government’s stimulus programme that is meant to help Kenyans strive through the high cost of living.
The president stated, “being led by empathy and understanding and our desire to cushion our population from the rising cost of living, today my administration wishes to implement a 5th stimulus programme focusing on the Unga crisis. Maize floor shall retail across the territory of the entire Republic of Kenya at Ksh.100 from Ksh.205 for a 2kg packet until otherwise directed.”
This comes a few days after the ministry of Agriculture led by Peter Munya announced that the government was going to supplement maize millers so as to lower the price of maize flour.
The president stated that his government had suspended all levies on imported maize so as to see a favourable price for maize flour. He added, “This programme of a subsidy of Ksh.105 per 2kg pack of maize-meal is meant to lower the cost of living for the vulnerable households as we look for a sustainable solution to the recurrent rising price of unga every election.”
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