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What Unga crisis? - If only Kenyans would have learnt this trick earlier

After the government announced that it had solved the food crisis by importing maize from Mexico and setting the price of a 2kg packet at Sh90 Kenyans were happy.

Little did we know that our joy was short lived. I was surprised when shopping for maize flour in a supermarket to find a notice that I should only pick one. The next one I visited required shoppers to buy the 2kg maize flour and a kilo of sugar.

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