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Kenya: Slow importation of duty-free maize sinks hopes of lower flour prices

By Victor Abuso

Posted on May 16, 2023 12:57

 © Maize flour seen on the shelves at the Quick mart Lavington in Nairobi, January 24, 2019.
Maize flour seen on the shelves at the Quick mart Lavington in Nairobi, January 24, 2019.

Kenyans will now be forced to wait longer for a drop in the price of maize flour following the slow importation of the duty-free grain.

Two months to the end of the gazetted period to import cheap maize, it has surfaced that traders have only been able to import 48,000tn against the expected 500,000tn.