Motorists passing through Kenya have been blamed for causing fuel shortages. This blame has been announced by the Ag. Cabinet Secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum and Mining, Monica Juma.
According to Juma, these motorists are preferring to fuel in Kenya instead of Uganda and Tanzania because Kenya has cheaper fuel.
“The Ministry has established a spiking petroleum demand, especially in Western Kenya. This demand is being driven by the preference of transit customers to fuel in Kenya owing to the price differential with neighbouring countries,” sad Juma.
The CS further sad that Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) has enough fuel to curb the looming fuel crisis with a stock of 97.367 million litres of super petrol and 77.810 litres of diesel to cover the country for about two weeks.
She also announced that local oil marketers had agreed to sell all their remain fuel in Kenya to avert another fuel shortage crisis.
“All pumpable petroleum stock within KPC system to adhere to the 60:40 local to transit ratio. OMCs with higher transit stocks than the prescribed ratio to immediately localize the excess stocks,” she said.
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Fuel shortage has been widely reported in parts of Western Kenya and North Rift. In other parts of the country, fuel has been selling at as high as Sh. 200 per litre in the black market.
