State House in crisis meeting as maize price hits 5-year high

President Uhuru Kenyatta Wednesday met his top advisers to discuss a rapid response plan for the drought that is ravaging parts Kenya even as the price of maize flour — the country’s staple — hit a five-year high with the sharp drop in grain supply countrywide.

Cabinet secretaries in charge of Treasury, Devolution and Agriculture alongside top bureaucrats in the three ministries met the President at State House, Nairobi to brief him on the response plan they are said to have crafted during a late night meeting on Tuesday.