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High cost of flour inhuman, say MPs
A customer buys maize flour at a Nairobi supermarket on Wednesday. A steady supply of the commodity was reported in major retail outlets ending a week of shortage that had pushed up prices to Sh120 per packet last week. By Wednesday, a packet was being sold at between Sh95 and Sh98 a packet. Photo/HEZRON NJOROGE
Posted Wednesday, November 26 2008 at 21:29
Mr Kilonzo claimed that some Cabinet ministers had formed cartels to enrich themselves by cashing in on fertilisers at the expense of the ordinary citizens.
But he also said: “The Ministry of agriculture is under-funded. Why should it be given four per cent of the national Budget instead of 40 per cent yet is responsible for providing food?”
Mr Ephraim Maina (Mathira, Safina) described the food crisis as a matter of national security saying a hungry person is a dangerous person.
“Somebody somewhere is playing games with this crisis by opening and closing the door at will. The Government must let us know who the culprits are unless it is also involved in the deal to fleece the public,” he said
And Mr Walter Nyambati (Kitutu Masaba, ) said a Government that could not feed its people had no business being in power.
He wondered why China and India with over one billion people could feed their people, but the Kenyan Government was unable to feed 35 million people.
Mr Abdul Bahari (Isiolo South, Kanu), accused the Government of losing direction, saying it was a shame that 45 years after independence Kenyans were suffering due to lack of basic foodstuffs.
Reported By Bernard Namunane, Odhiambo Orlale and Carolyne Wafula
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Submitted by syindumyakiPosted November 27, 2008 08:53 PM
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Submitted by SJ502
Unga is no longer a necessity, it's a luxury! Any one making windfall profits over this grim situation will have a curse over their heads for generations. How dumb does it get?
Posted November 27, 2008 01:34 PM -
Submitted by wabsken
stop games where is kibaki na raila. why let the poor mwananchi suffer at the expense of this greedy MPS do some man.i hope all kenyans remember this fools elected now, come next election.PLEASE vOTE SEND THEM ALL HOME nobody should remain.
Posted November 27, 2008 10:36 AM -
Submitted by fmanduku
If what we read in the press the other day is anything to go by, we need those politicians who created the artificial shortage reigned in and big time...Ruto, Wako and the PM, can you do your work here?! We cannot continue to have politicians being the main reason for problems in this country! Time has come to stop that!
Posted November 27, 2008 10:31 AM -
Submitted by Hillaryio
Never believe these MPs for a second. They say one thing and do the complete opposite of it. Some of them were going around telling us how they wanted their allowances taxed yet they voted against the clauses that would have seen that happen. They are just liars have a good time at the parliament!
Posted November 27, 2008 08:52 AM
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In the developed countries farmers have their cost of production highly subsidised by the govt. why not in kenya? what happened to large scale farming, irrigation etc? there is a lot of idle land also, why cant it be converted into farming land? shd we also reduce cash crop farming becos it doesnt fetch much? where are the agriculturists to advise this nation? uuuh shida!