It would be exasperating but not unexpected for the current flip-flop and blame game on petroleum testing fees to be an extension of ODM-PNU/PDM turf wars. The controversy straddles ODM Chairman Henry Kosgey’s Industrialisation ministry and the Energy ministry under Kiraitu Murungi, who is at the opposite end of the political scale.
The saving grace is that the inspection deal between Kenya Bureau of Standards and Indian firm Geo Chem is now on hold.