Lifestyle

Sugar merchants in Kenya have up to March 31st next year to import the sweetener on duty-free terms to help plug yawning supply gaps of the commodity. In a gazette notice dated 22 December, Treasury Cabinet Secretary Prof Njuguna Ndung’u notified that the country needs to import at least 100,000 metric tonnes of sugar in three months. The prices of sugar, along with other basic commodities such as maize, maize flour, as well as cooking oil have been on an upward spiral eroding consumer budgets while also pushing up inflation. The average retail price of Sugar in Kenya has increased to Kes312 for a two-kilo…