Millions lost as cartel descends on oil pipeline

Officials look at a yard in Muhoroni village in Kisumu County where stolen oil was kept. [Photo: Collins Oduor, Standard]

Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) may have lost diesel and kerosene worth millions of shillings to a cartel that had illegally tapped into their Nakuru-Kisumu line.

Senior KPC engineers from Kisumu and Nakuru, shocked by the discovery, flew to Muhoroni where they discovered a complex fuel siphoning network described by County Commissioner Maalim Mohamed as criminal economic sabotage.