Retailers defy subsidy to sell maize flour at Sh119

Buyers at a Nyeri supermarket queue to buy Sh90 maize flour last month. PHOTO | JOSEPH KANYI | NMG

Kenyans bought maize flour at an average price of Sh119 for the two-kilo packet, a pointer that retailers made huge profits from the subsidy meant to lower the cost of the staple.

Data collected by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) reveals that on average retailers sold a packet of flour at above the Sh90 set by the government under the subsidy plan.

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