{"id":3851,"date":"2019-07-18T08:07:19","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T08:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3851"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:25","slug":"another-scandal-in-the-offing-how-kenya-walked-into-a-maize-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/18\/another-scandal-in-the-offing-how-kenya-walked-into-a-maize-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Scandal In The Offing? How Kenya Walked Into A Maize Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By Daily Nation<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a series of\ngoofs, poor planning and politics, the country is once again staring at a maize\ncrisis. But technocrats and politicians do not seem to agree on what to do.\nSome fear that another maize scandal seems to be cooking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Agriculture Cabinet\nSecretary Mwangi Kiunjuri says the country is running low on maize stocks and\nmust import as per the Cabinet\u2019s directive. He has told off those saying there\nis enough maize. The national Strategic Food Reserve Trust Fund (SFRTF)\nchairman, Dr. Noah Wekesa, says they are holding 760,000 bags of maize which\nremained after selling 1.2 million bags from the 1.7 million bags they put on\nsale in May. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/Another-scandal--How-Kenya-walked-into-a-maize-crisis\/1056-5198802-h2ustc\/index.html\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation After a series of goofs, poor planning and politics, the country is once again staring at a maize crisis. But technocrats and politicians do not seem to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}