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Taxes and fuel prices: How high will State take them?

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Why are fuel prices skyrocketing, more so when our leaders are away? [iStockphoto]

At around midnight on Thursday, I stopped by a petrol station and filled up my tank.

I found several other Kenyans doing the same before prices shot up by a whopping Sh16.96 a litre for petrol and Sh21.36 for diesel. We saved a few shillings for the day. Why are fuel prices skyrocketing, more so when our leaders are away?

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