Faulty fuel testing kits expose Kenyans to adulteration

Judiciary officers, Police and Energy Regulation Commission officials hold an open court session at an illegal fuel depot near Eveready in Nakuru Town. The court ordered over 5, 000 liters of adulterated fuel and the makeshift go-down destroyed. Energy CS Charles Keter recently said Kenya had lost its regional fuel market due to adulteration. Refined petroleum, which forms 13 per cent of Kenya’s total exports, is the country’s third largest export product after tea and cut flowers.

Kenyans may be filling their vehicles with adulterated fuel even as the State pays hundreds of millions of shillings for defective testing kits.

The kits, which are supposed to enable oil marketing firms to detect kerosene in diesel and super petrol, have not been working.