With escalating food prices and high cost of living due to the removal of subsidies in food commodities, Linturi stated that plans are in place to change the current situation that has caused an uproar among Kenyans.
It is now well over three months since the Kenya Kwanza alliance administration came into office with expectations being high that the new administration would fix the high cost of living that is biting across the country.
However, that has not been the case with the government even scrapping several food subsidies that had been introduced by retired president Uhuru Kenyatta to manage the cost of living. The result has been a pain to the pockets of many consumers.
However, according to the latest communication from the government, this is about to end. Ministry of agriculture cabinet secretary Mithika Linturi says that the low price of maize flour and rice looms.
Linturi says that by February this year, Kenyans should expect to see low food prices, especially maize flour and beans, two very important staple foods.
“Agriculture cabinet secretary Mithika Linturi assures that prices of maize flour and rice will go down by February 2023 as the government banks on food production,” Capital FM reports.