By EDITORIALMore by this AuthorPresident Uhuru Kenyatta’s pledge to tackle rising food prices and shortages is welcome, but it comes too late in the day. The government’s proposal is to get Parliament, which resumes on Tuesday, to approve a supplementary budget to buy food. The price question is affecting various foodstuffs – maize flour, sugar and milk – the basic items in the menu of any household. When he read the Budget in March, Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich offered tax waivers on maize imports to lower costs. PRICES WOULD FALLFor good measure, it was expected that maize prices would fall within a week; but that was never to be.

Source: Daily Nation May 08, 2017 21:00 UTC