Top news items of major Kenyan media outlets

News highlights of leading Kenyan media outlets on Monday.

-- The cost of maize, the staple eaten by millions of citizens, rises to over 1 U.S. dollar as millers avoid produce from strategic reserves claiming that it is unfit for human consumption. They are now importing from Tanzania. (Daily Nation)

-- Opposition leader Raila Odinga accuses the government of trying to return Kenya into a one party-State era by incarcerating critics without trial. Eight MPs accused of hate speech were recently detained in police cells for four days. (The Standard)

-- Treasury last month surpassed its annual domestic borrowing target by 487 million dollars as it moved to plug revenue shortfalls in the wake of continued underperformance of tax collection, newly released data showed. (Business Daily)

-- Compensation for landowners along sections of the Standard Gauge Railway was bungled with the loss of hundreds of millions of shillings. Evidence shows the taxpayer could have lost more than 6.3 million dollars in the exercise. (People Daily)

-- Dahabshiil, one of the largest Africa-based money transfer businesses, says the UK's exit from the EU will hit remittances and affect investments in the region. (The Star) Enditem