Poor households hardest hit as cooking gas prices set to rise

Employees arrange cooking gas cylinders at a depot in Nyeri Town. The price of a 13kg cylinder rose by 4.95 per cent last month to Sh2, 176 compared with Sh2, 073 in July last year. [File, Standard]

The Government has introduced duty on the importation of gas cylinders, which could put the cooking gas out of reach of many poor Kenyans.

This comes barely two months after National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich imposed punitive excise taxes on kerosene, another fuel popular with a majority of poor households.