Who is fooling whom as motorists stare at another major fuel crisis?

Fuel tankers lining up at the Kenya Pipeline Company depot in Eldoret.  [Peter Ochieng, Standard]

Kenya’s fuel supply situation remains bleak, with the country a few days away from a stockout and possibly a full-blown crisis, even as petroleum storage facilities remain full.

This is due to some oil marketing companies holding huge stocks of petroleum products in the Kenya Pipeline Company’s (KPC’s) facilities that are earmarked for re-export to neighbouring countries.