Key economic indicators blink red as Kenya shifts from polls

Ugali and Kunde the delicacy affected by overpricing of flour in shops and wholesales  PHOTO DAVID GICHURU

As the country got lost in the hubbub of the General Election, the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics released its Leading Economic Indicators for June 2017. And if the leading presidential candidates cared to look at the report, they would have realised that a number of indicators were actually blinking red.

This is where President Uhuru Kenyatta - if the Supreme Court vindicates him after his competitor Raila Odinga challenged his win in Court - will begin his second term.