Fuel Lies: How Ruto's cheap fuel promise collapsed into scandal, shortages and record prices

Energy and Petroleum Cabinet Secretary Opiyo Wandayi. [File, Standard]

When  President William Ruto unveiled the Government-to-Government (G-to-G) fuel import deal in April 2023, he promised Kenyans a shield. The arrangement with Gulf oil majors, he said, would secure a stable supply, tame volatile prices, and end the era of crippling fuel shortages. 
Two years later, that shield lies in tatters.