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Fury over food prices despite State assurance

By Macharia Kamau

Nairobi, Kenya: Kenyans are still jittery about the possibility of basic food items being subjected to a 16 per cent Value Added Tax despite the Treasury last week saying that it had removed essential household items from the proposed VAT Bill set to be tabled before Parliament in coming weeks.

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