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By CHIQUITTA
So the price of fuel has gone up, tariffs have gone up, food is expensive and Kenyans finally feeling the pinch of inflation. It’s no longer a graph with squiggly lines or a bunch of figures full of percentages and decimal points, it’s as real as it gets. While it used to be just the jalopies that caused traffic jam after running low on fuel you can now find Mercedes Benzes getting the mutungi treatment on the side of the road. Kenyans are no longer trying to go full tank, half or a quarter will do while others are happy to run on fumes– it’s called living dangerously.
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