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A protestor holds a plate of ugali outside parliament buildings. [File, Standard]

Kenyans will for the first time in weeks enjoy cheap ugali after the government announced the launch of a subsidy programme for maize flour.

In what looks like a political coup by outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta’s administration, the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Co-operatives (MOALFC) announced that a 2kg packet of maize flour would retail at Sh100 for the next four weeks, a reduction of 60 per cent from the current price of Sh250.

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