Refilling your cooking gas cylinder set to get harder

An Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority official inspects gas cylinders at an illegal filling outlet at Changamwe in Mombasa. LPG marketers say they lost control of their cylinders to counterfeiters. [File, Standard]

You will soon no longer have the convenience of buying cooking gas at your neighbourhood kiosk or the nearest petrol station.

You will instead only refill at outlets run by oil marketing companies that own the brand of your gas cylinder.