Kenya pays three times for SA maize enriching wealthy importers

John Otieno who sells maize and owns a business of poshomill at work where he sells a kilo of maize for seventy shillings and mills for another ten shilling at his business premises in kibera

Kenya is paying nearly three times the current price of maize in South Africa, pointing to huge margins for traders but huge costs to the taxpayer.

The removal of duty on imported maize only helped to compound the profits raked in by the few wealthy traders who have the financial muscle to engage in large-scale imports.