EPRA sanctions oil marketers selling most fuel outside Kenya

Motorists in Nakuru City queue for fuel at a petrol station (Harun Wathari, Standard)

The Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) has sanctioned oil marketing companies that increased fuel exports to foreign markets beyond the “allowed capacity”.

EPRA says the oil marketers’ decision to prioritise the foreign market in the last four weeks has plunged Kenya into a fuel crisis.