Nairobi, March 28 -- 'The Cost of Living' has become an issue that appears almost every day in our newspapers. Prices of unga, cooking oil, fuel and electricity among other essential commodities continue to skyrocket, leaving many Kenyans surviving instead of living.

Part of the problem and contributors to this sad state of affairs are the politicians who mislead the citizens by campaigning on the platform of reducing the cost of commodities once elected.

And the clamour for reduced prices has not started today. When I was still young, we bought 2kg of bread at Sh5. This was during the Moi era.

On budget-reading days, citizens eagerly awaited the moment when the reduced prices of basic commodities would be announced.

It so happened th...