Add Sh500m to Ruto's budget to pay small-scale millers, say MPs

Shoppers queue to purchase packets of subsidized maize flour at a Nakuru supermarket in 2022. [Harun Wathari Standard]

The National Assembly Agriculture and Livestock Committee now wants Sh500 million added to President William Ruto's first budget to pay debts owed to millers.

The House team, which has been probing the maize flour subsidy program introduced by former President Uhuru Kenyatta in 2022, explained that the funds would go towards offsetting an accrued debt to the small-scale millers following suspension of the programme.