Price Controls have always failed... Show me a country where they have been successful...???
It is easy to introduce Price Controls coz POPULIST but it is inefficient... Encourages smuggling, deters investment thus loss of suppliers means either lower quality or shortages...
Maize, wheat, sugar & food oils are all GLOBAL commodities... Kenya imports all of the 4 above...
If you sell at 'below' cost then it will be smuggled from Kenya into Tanzania, Uganda, Sudan!!!
Dont forget fuel... Kenya imports 100% of its crude oil & petrol/diesel requirements... It's the high taxes (40% of petrol prices are direct taxes)...
Greedy when others are fearful. Very fearful when others are greedy - to paraphrase Warren Buffett