Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:34:51 -0800 [03:34:51 AM CST]
From: stellah lubanga
Subject: Re: Ruto on maize prices

Let all make some sense from this maize prices

Fertizer last year was Kes 4,200/- per bag
Planting cost/weeding/harvesting -(Remember the fuel prices for farming)
Cost of maize at the board is Kes 1,800/- (Farmers payment)

Farmers are demands ionly Kes 2,500/- for their maize

Lets now import the maize duty free at 2,500/- who is being fooled….???????TEACHERS THE FARMERS OR KENYANS.

Wake up my countrymen/women??

— On Wed, 1/28/09, Alice Okello wrote:

From: Alice Okello
Subject: Re: Ruto on maize prices
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 12:12 AM

Doreen,

you were either not listening or you did not want to listen. he clearly stated the reasons for the shortage

1. 2.5 million bags burnt during post election violence
2. Failed rains caused another shortage
3.After and during post election violence, farmers did not farm.

all these resulted in the short fall of 10 million bags

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:41 AM, doreen gitari wrote:

Harun, agreed.

What is the cost of transporting a bag of maize from say Kitale to kibwezi? the only thing i got from the interview was the figures, otherwise, there wasnt even the slightest justification/excuse for the importation of maize at inflated prices.After all, the maize farmers only demand like 500 more for a bag.

Can someone please make me understand why the only statement to argue his case was “the problem in Kenya now is that there is a shortage of maize…” y did he not tell us what has occassioned the shortage, whether it is an artificial shortage or for real there is a shortage? He needs to be told that we arent fools and can read in between the lines.

Harun, thenx for raising this issue