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Hike in fuel prices to persist in coming months, Chirchir warns

Energy Cabinet Secretary Davis Chirchir addresses press conference on the recent KPLC blackouts that left the country in darkness. [Samson Wire, Standard]

Fuel prices are likely to continue to rise in the coming months, with officials in the Energy sector offering few answers on when Kenyans can expect a respite.

A parliamentary committee yesterday heard that the trajectory offers little hope, a situation the Energy Cabinet Secretary Davis Chirchir said the government had no control over.

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