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The discipline President William Ruto used to narrowly win the hotly contested election in August 2022 is an arsenal he may want to deploy to get his Cabinet to act coherently in dealing with the severe economic headwinds the country faces. Government officials seem confused in implementing the campaign manifesto on which they were elected.
One of the first actions of the newly minted President was to eliminate food subsidies signalling he would focus on supporting production and not consumption.
On the contrary, his Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture Mithika Linturi, a man of a candid comportment, told the parliamentary committee that vetted his appointment that subsidies were needed to bring down the price of 'unga,' the maize staple that Kenyans cannot live without.
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