State forms crisis team as maize flour shortage bites

Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Willy Bett (right) with his PS Richard Lesiyampe during a meeting with the National Assembly’s Agriculture Committee on the food crisis last month.[Photo: File, Standard]

Kenyans continue to experience shortage of basic food stuff, pushing the Government to form a team to oversee the subsidy programme.

This comes at a time when millers have issued a red alert that they have run out of maize supplies, heightening panic among consumers.