Uhuru warns oil marketers on fuel shortage, regional exports

A petrol station attendant puts fuel on a customer's jerrican at Rubi's petrol station along Koinange Street in Nairobi on April 13, 2022. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

President Uhuru Kenyatta yesterday read the riot act to petroleum industry players for causing a major fuel shortage last month.

Mr Kenyatta, in his last Labour Day speech in Nairobi, warned oil marketing companies that the government would not hesitate to penalise any of them “found culpable of offenses that resulted in great uncertainty in the market.”