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Economy broken when citizens risk lives to loot petrol

The wreckage of a fuel tanker that killed 13 people on the spot who were siphoning fuel before it exploded at Malanga Gem constituency Siaya county on July 18, 2021.[Collins Oduor,standard]

The events of Sunday, July 18, at Yala in Siaya County, are enough to send any rational leader in this country recoiling in shame. We sincerely condole with the families, friends, neighbours and the people of Siaya. It is indeed a national shame to witness such a horror again when the memories of Sachang’wan on January 31, 2009, have refused to fade away.

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