Cost of flour set to shoot up as subsidy ends next week

Workers arrange maize flour packets at a supermarket in Nairobi. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Consumers are staring at expensive flour as the subsidy programme is expected to come to an end next week.

The government, in an agreement with millers, had in July agreed that the subsidy programme was to end after a month. This is despite President Uhuru Kenyatta’s announcement that the programme would continue indefinitely.

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