VIDEO: "Ghai Unga ni Ksh 200"! Lady Screams at a Supermarket after being Shocked by Maize Flour Price
A video has emerged of a young lady expressing her surprise at the price of two kilograms of maize flour, which costs ksh200. According to the footage, which was later posted by a local media outlet, the lady was filmed at the checkout department of Naivas Supermarket.
Christine Juma The lady in the video selected a variety of household items from the supermarket. She screamed when she got to the cashier section and saw that the flour was ksh200.
Kenyans have taken to social media to express their reactions to the video. The majority of the people has commented that living is definitely difficult. The lady yelled and said, "Unga ni Ksh200!" in the footage posted by the media house. She stated.
The majority of commenters on the page decried how expensive life has become. Several netizens encouraged the government to step in.
This comes at a time, Kenya's inflation rate reached a new high of 7.1% in May, as the cost of food and beverages continues to increase dramatically, owing in part to the conflict in Ukraine, which has pushed up energy and food prices.
According to figures issued by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, inflation – a measure of yearly increases in the cost of living – increased from 6.47 percent in April, driven primarily by food, transportation, and gasoline prices.
“The rise in Kenya’s inflation was mainly due to an increase in prices of commodities under; food and non-alcoholic beverages (12.4 percent); furnishings, household equipment and routine household maintenance (7.9 percent); transport (6.4 percent) and housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels (6.0 percent),” KNBS in their report.
The average price of basic goods increased compared to April, with a 2kg package of sifted maize flour jumping 6.9 percent to Sh147.57 in May, a litre of cooking oil growing 5.3 percent to Sh370.71, and a 500ml packet of milk climbing 3.7 percent to Sh57.30.
Prices for kale (sukuma wiki), spinach, and cabbages fell by 5.0, 4.1, and 4.0 percent, respectively, within the same time period. The increase in fuel and diesel prices caused the transport index to climb by 0.8% throughout the period.
Currently, a 2kgs maize flour is retailing at 200 shillings depending on the type of the flour. A litre of cooking oil is now retailing at 500 shillings.
With the new inflation of prizes commodities, the majority of Kenyans are now languishing in poverty.
The Housing, Water, Electricity, Gas, and Other Fuels Index grew by 0.6% between April 2022 and May 2022, according to KNBS.
