Attempts to shut down nine gas filling plants challenged

Kenya: Middle tier and small companies marketing cooking gas in Kenya have claimed unfair treatment from government. The firms accuse State officials of favouring multinationals. They say plans by government agencies manning the petroleum industry to shut down nine gas refilling plants citing national security are discriminatory.

The companies whose plants are earmarked for demolition now claim that they are not getting an even playing field and see the hand of oil majors in Kenya, who they say are now trying to get rid of them and expand their control of the petroleum and gas market in Kenya.