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Why we hiked kerosene prices – Petroleum PS Andrew Kamau

Energy & Petroleum PS Andrew Kamau before the Departmental committee on Finance and National Planning at the Continental house, Nairobi. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Petroleum Principal Secretary (PS) Andrew Kamau says the ministry had to introduce high levies on kerosene to make it expensive because crooked traders were buying it at a low cost and mixing it with diesel and thereafter selling the adulterated fuel to unsuspecting motorists.

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