Kenyans Petition William Ruto’s Gov’t to Lower Food Prices: “We Want Unga at KSh 60”

 

 

• The Kiamaiko Social Justice, through Change.org, noted that Kenyans had become severely affected by the recent increase in food prices and basic commodities

 

 

• The commodities whose prices have risen include maize flour, wheat flour, cooking oil, cooking gas, milk, bread, sugar, petrol, diesel and kerosene.

 

 

• The association further claimed that most Nairobi residents could not access clean water and proper sanitation

 

 

Kenyans struggling with the high cost of living have initiated a petition asking

 

 

 

President William Ruto’s government to intervene over skyrocketing food prices.

 

 

 

 

 

The Kiamaiko Social Justice, through Change.org, noted that Kenyans

 

 

had become severely affected by the recent increase in food prices and basic commodities.

 

 

 

 

The commodities whose prices have risen include maize flour, wheat flour,

 

 

cooking oil, cooking gas, milk, bread, sugar, petrol, diesel and kerosene.

 

 

 

 

“That, this increase in the prices of food and basic commodities threatens the people of Kenya with hunger and starvation. More than 35% of Kenyans suffer from food insecurity and malnutrition each year, with 2.6 million facing a food insecurity crisis,” part of the petition read.