Bunge Chronicles: Oh don't be fooled, MPs allowed fuel prices to rise

A man fueling a car in Nairobi. [File, Standard]

I know, I know. You want to talk about the fuel cost that has got everyone pumped up. We’ll get to that in a moment after I’m done putting you up to speed with other news that came out of Bunge this week.

Our wahesh from the National Assembly’s Energy Committee were overly generous with threats on Thursday when they met a mdosi from Kenya Power. Vivienne Yeda, the chair of Kenya Power’s board, was harping on about why the wahesh shouldn’t lecture them for failing to honour their invitation to explain runaway electricity costs on Thursday before the MPs pounced on her.