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Customers enjoying a plate of ugali. NEMA barred the use of polypropylene balers or simply plastics in the grain milling sector. [File, Standard]

Kenyans should brace themselves for tougher times as the government has stuck to the use of heavily taxed papers to package maize and wheat flour.

This revelation is contained in a court case filed by the Cereal Millers Association (CMA) against the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA), Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi, his environment counterpart Deborah Barasa and the Attorney General Dorcas Oduor.

The millers lamented that insisting on the use of expensive kraft papers not only hurts the industry, but it will dent the pockets of consumers.