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Cars fuel at the Shell petrol station along Mbagathi way ,Nairobi. [Elvis Ogina.Standard]
The country was Friday on edge as it awaited the much-anticipated return of President Uhuru Kenyatta from China on whose hands the fate of the controversial fuel tax rests.
President Kenyatta has remained tight-lipped on the 16 per cent value added tax on all fuel products that came into effect on September 1 amid public outcry even as the National Treasury digs in to continue levying the punitive tax.
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