Putting cost of living in context

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Customers shop for maize flour. FILE PHOTO | NMG

‘The Cost of Living’ has become an issue that appears almost every day in our newspapers. Prices of unga, cooking oil, fuel and electricity among other essential commodities continue to skyrocket, leaving many Kenyans surviving instead of living.

Part of the problem and contributors to this sad state of affairs are the politicians who mislead the citizens by campaigning on the platform of reducing the cost of commodities once elected.

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