When it was a crime to keep kerosene in your house

Kerosene pressure lamp. [File, Standard]

What does the government have against kerosene? Even when prices of other oil products went down to cushion Kenyans from the rising cost of living, the price of kerosene remained defiantly high.

While hiking the price of kerosene a while back, policymakers argued that this was the only way to curtail the cartels which had been using this fuel to adulterate diesel. This brought it at per with diesel and somehow stopped the cheats from “baptizing” diesel but in the process hit the masses hard since this was the primary source of lighting for millions of Kenyans.