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HUNGER!!!!!!!!

With the dollar at 91 Ksh the economy in our country is deteriorating. The cost of living is now very high starting with high fuel prices and the skyrocketing food prices in Kenya. Some people are going hungry everyday due to lack of water let alone food.When shopping yesterday, I noticed that some products had increased in prices while some were not even available. The items that were available, one was only allowed to purchase a maximum of only 2 packets(am talking about sugar).

One of the commodities whose price has spiked obscenely in the last four months is maize flour by a staggering 70 percent.
 
But it’s not the first time we have had shortage of maize and our beloved government has never bothered to subsidize the cost of fertilizers to a sensible level, give farmers incentives, revive and put up more irrigation schemes or any other measures to counter the perennial maize shortage.

This is leaving our country in a very tight place. 'What exactly is happening????'

Among the causes for high cost of living from various reliable sources are: taxation, mismanagement of funds at the local level, climate change, Kenya's underproduction of staple items which has placed it dangerously at the mercy of local and global economic instability, unemployment...and the list goes on.
Now the Government has allowed imports of Genetically Modified Crop (GMOs)of Maize to save Kenyans from severe starvation that has hit the country, its willing to fork out Ksh 40 billion to import maize to offset the shortage and give millers a duty waiver. This strategy has caused a lot of debate on whether it is safe or not for human consumption. Millions of Kenyans are starving and will eat anything that is edible, their animals have died, no grass or bush to feed on and they are only left with wild fruits which is not enough. This explains why there are too many demonstrations taking place lately in the country.
 Over to you Mr./Mrs politicians..

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