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The arrival of 48,000 tonnes of white maize at the Port of Mombasa has heralded the prospect of cheap flour on Kenyan shelves. It has repudiated the ridiculous notion of a government unconcerned about the plight of its citizens. It also takes the wind out of the sails of the country's political opposition which has capitalised on shortages of the national staple to make "unga" the rallying cry of a disruptive mass action movement.
There are other narratives along the same vein that this column seeks to debunk. First is the spurious allegation to the effect that the Kenya Kwanza government is unable to pay civil servants' emoluments because of administrative incompetence. Nothing could be further from the truth. As has been explained by leading economists, the country now faces an external debt burden resulting from profligate borrowing during the Uhuru Kenyatta administration.
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