I intended to grab a cart, a basket actually since all I wanted to get was cooking oil and...what was the other thing, oh yes, paper bags.
So I ran up to the cooking oil section and fancifully looked at the prices of the 10 litre mutungi's...why not buy much and get over and done with it for the next couple of months, ama? The price tag on it was some three thousand and something shillings. I looked at the 20 litre mutungi just to see what it cost and it was six thousand shillings and some...then I checked out Rina Vegetable Oil, which I prefer. What! I thought I was dreaming when I read to price tag on it. The 5 litre jerrican cost a whooping NINE HUNDRED AND THIRTY ONE SHILLINGS!!!
Ok, now please. WHAT! 931/=. I couldn't believe it. I looked at the 2 litre can, it was thereabouts Sh300 while the 4 litre one was like six hundred bob. I got upset. Surely. 5 litres of cooking oil going for about a thousand bob! It's either the value of our currency is crap...(consider the current exchange rate to the dollar...hmph 90 bob and dropping...) or we are being played.
How many people can afford this!?
Kenyans we are in trouble!
Then I'm thinking, surely, is it manufacturers that are taking advantage of rising fuel costs ama this is justified?
Honestly, I think this is really wrong. How many Kenyan families can afford this cooking oil? I didn't even bother to check out akina kimbo, and the other cooking fat varieties...but I'm pretty sure that the prices were just as bad.
How far down is this going to go? How much longer will Kenyans suffer, have to do away with the basics as ends refuse to meet each end month? Today its some families in Kibera, slums and low income households who will not have, tomorrow, it will be me and my family, the next day, you.
So what are you going to do about this?
