Senate team says State insensitive to farmers’ plight

Members of the Senate ad hoc committee on maize crisis led by Bungoma Senator address the press in Naivasha over the new prices of Sh2,300 released by the government. The committee has rejected the prices adding that farmers should be paid over Sh3,000 per bag of maize.

The Senate ad hoc committee set up to iron out issues surrounding the maize crisis has rejected the Sh2,300 maize price approved by Cabinet.

The committee termed the new rates as an abuse to farmers who had invested millions of shillings to feed the nation.