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President Uhuru Kenyatta: Reasons for maize shortage

President Uhuru Kenyatta.

Poor rainfall, hoarding, global inflation and war in Ukraine are some of the reasons maize flour prices are high in Kenya according to President Uhuru Kenyatta.

The president said it was strange that a few months or weeks to general elections in Kenya, maize flour prices usually shoot up.

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