A SESSION WITH “WANJIKU”: THE ZERONESS🤯🤯😠😠During the Easter holiday, I met a group of ordinary but hardworking Kenyans, who are, in many contexts, referred to as “Wanjikus” or “Common Wananchi”. Apparently, all the eight people in the group happened to have benefitted from the Unga subsidy which was in place sometime around July last year. The discussion they were having had cost of living and delayed salaries in it. In course of the discussion, one of them said, “We’re not interested in whoever (if any) was benefitting from the subsidies, but in acquiring the maize flour at Ksh 100 or even less!” (Translated). The weight of this statement drew my attention closer, as I internalized. The utterer of the statement is among the millions of people who’ve heard about the government’s approach on the subject i.e. subsidizing production as opposed to consumption. The statement elicits the n...