State should ensure every Kenyan has food during this difficult time

Coronavirus could not have chosen a worse time to strike Kenya. It came as Kenyans were fighting huge swarms of locusts, sometimes with nothing but bare hands. It came crashing down while companies were recording losses and as a result whittling down operations and personnel.

Covid-19 came while the government coffers were almost dry -- it had only Sh2.8b by end of February. And as if that is not enough, Strategic Food Reserve (SFR) management says there are no grains in the stores. No money, no jobs, an empty SFR and Covid-19. That’s a lethal combination.