Subsidised unga at Tuskys supermarket. [Photo/The Star]
Millers have said they have no subsidised maize left in their stores to continue processing the Sh90 per 2kg unga.
The Millers have also denied claims that they are hoarding subsidised maize.
“They are now buying maize at market-determined prices. We hope the prices will stabilise as soon as there are adequate supplies of maize in the market,” Nick Hutchinson, the Cereal Millers Association chairman, said in a statement.
Agriculture CS Willy Bett had announced in November that the ministry would make provisions to transition into the end of the subsidy programme.
Hutchinson said as the subsidy was coming to an end, millers’ allocated quotas were reduced in order to ensure that no subsidy maize was left over.
“There was also an agreement that at the end of the subsidy programme, millers would return any leftover subsidy maize to the NCPB,” he said.