(Photo: Collins Oduor, Standard)High cost of living in Kenya has forced scores of Busia County residents to cross to Uganda to shop for basic commodities. Retail shops in Uganda are selling 1 kilogramme of sugar at Sh150 compared to local supermarkets in Busia where it goes at Sh200. Foodstuffs being brought in the country through porous borders of Busia and Malaba are mostly sugar and milk which are then sold at exorbitant cost in shops. Busia Traders Association chairman Stephen Obala blamed devolved units for doing little to alleviate living standards of public. Mary Anyango is one of the Kenyans who cross to Uganda to shop.

Source: Standard Digital May 07, 2017 10:41 UTC