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Rotich suggests 12pc tax to appease MPs

Long queues at Total Petrol Station in Kitui town on September 6, 2018 as impact of new fuel taxes continues. [Paul Mutua/Standard]

National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich arrived back in the country from China on Wednesday night to a huge financing crisis that threatens to tear his spending plans apart.

Mr Rotich flew back ahead of his boss, President Uhuru Kenyatta, and held his first closed-door meeting at Parliament Buildings yesterday where debate over the new fuel levy kicked off last week.

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