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Hefty taxes will keep Kenya at the bottom of the pile

For those with longer memories, this past week was playback from the 1990s Kenya, when fuel shortages were the norm because of economic mismanagement.

Few scenes depict decay and crisis as thousands of people walking to and from work, as motorists dash around from one petrol station to the next, joining long queues waiting for rationed petrol. 

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