Over a week ago, Cabinet Secretaries for Treasury and Agriculture hurriedly convened a press conference to update the nation on the “current national food situation.”
The country is currently steeped in a debilitating food crisis, a result of drought situation which has seen prices of basic foodstuff including cabbages, sukumawiki, potatoes, rice and tomatoes, go through the roof. Already, President Uhuru Kenyatta has declared drought a national disaster.