KENYA: Just how easy is it to walk into a petrol station with a jerrican and buy petrol in it? That is the question the Government and stakeholders in the education sector are grappling with even as they try to piece up the school fires puzzle together.
Because of petrol’s flammability, the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has set rules that no petrol should be sold in jerricans even if it is an emergency. Clearly, with the recent wave of school fires, it means some petrol attendants have been blatantly flouting this rule.