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Why Ruto's 'tax everything that moves' approach is bound to fail

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President William Ruto. [PCS]

It doesn't matter how often the Ruto administration brushes off Kenya's cost of living debate with the coined language of "we are subsidising production, not consumption; we are growing maize.

The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) Consumer Price Index shows that inflation is falling" and the other jazz Kenyans say belong to "jaba".

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