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Higher diesel prices drive up costs for transporters

A worker at a petrol station in Eldoret town adjusts fuel prices upwards on August 15, 2016. Public transport and farmers will continue bearing the brunt of rising fuel costs after the price of diesel jumped the most for two months in a row. FILE PHOTO | NMG

By  NEVILLE OTUKI

Transport operators and farmers will continue bearing the brunt of rising fuel costs after the price of diesel jumped the most for two months in a row.

Diesel, which fuels buses, trucks and farming tractors, is up by the biggest margin of Sh1.17 to Sh90.44 in Nairobi, after hitting a two-year high last month.

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