Consumers face price hikes on goods over new fuel levy

A customer buys sugar at a supermarket in Kisumu on August 15th 2018. Consumers have now reasons to worry as sugar shortage hits the town escalating from sh.125- sh.155 per kilogram. [Photo:Collins Oduor, Standard]

Manufacturers have threatened to raise the cost of products to factor in additional costs if the law imposing a 16 per cent Value Added Tax on petroleum products is upheld.