Do you think Jubilee unga subsidy was political ploy?

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The Jubilee government’s subsidised Unga  project was a ploy to get votes in the run-up to August 8, 2017 elections. It was not about making a majority of Kenyans enjoy an enjoyable and affordable meal. Just like the free secondary school education promise that appears to have collapsed on arrival, the day for the collapse of the subsidised Unga had to come. Today, food stores are selling Unga at Sh150, up from Sh90.

This can be traced to the manner in which the Jubilee administration pretended to solve the maize shortage crisis, which had led to the high Unga prices sometime last year. Jubilee scandalously imported maize and worked with select millers to make and label Unga price at Sh90 until the elections were over.