Agriculture Cabinet Secretary(CS) Mithika Linturi has summoned more than twenty local maize millers over the price of unga.
In a meeting on Friday, the CS will inquire as to why millers have yet to lower the price of unga.
“I have called all of the maize millers who are beneficiaries for a meeting on Friday because whatever revenue the government is going to lose by way of import duty must be reflected in the reduction of the price of that commodity in the market,” Linturi said.
President William Ruto publicly announced last week that the price of unga will decrease starting this week.
Hussein Mohamed, a spokesman for the State House, reported on Monday that unga prices have decreased at some retailers.
Only the Ajab and Umi brands, nevertheless, had pricing in the majority of supermarkets that were marginally less than Kes170.
The remainder was still in the range of Kes200 and Kes230.
Even as images of some businesses selling for less than Ksh.160 begin to circulate on socials, some millers deny lowering unga pricing.
Ajab brand was one of the winners when the Kenya Kwanza administration decided to permit maize millers to import maize duty-free, according to CS Linturi.
He noted that the brand’s consignment might have started coming in, so it has lowered the price.
As a result, Linturi stated at the Friday meeting that he will determine when the other millers will deliver their consignments.
“They might have problems in raising the money required to import the maize or raising certain instruments for foreign trading but I will know for certain on Friday,” he explained.
The duty-free maize import permits expire in August, just about when local maize farmers reap their harvests.
