The prices paid by consumers for essential commodities like maize meal, cooking fat, onions, potatoes and white bread rose last month despite the rate of inflation in the country easing for the fifth month in a row, helped by unchanged prices of electricity.
Data by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) released on Monday showed the rate of increase of basic goods and services dropped to 5.08 percent in February from a high of 5.39 percent in January.
