How Kenya’s imported fuel ends up at the petrol station

A man wheels a tyre past a petrol station in Eldoret City, Uasin Gishu County on April 16, 2026. 

Photo credit: Jared Nyataya | Nation Media Group

Kenya is still reeling from a contested 60,000 metric tons of petrol that were imported outside the government-to-government (G-to-G) deal last month. The consignment was one of the two cargoes brought in to avert a shortage of petrol.

A directive by Energy Cabinet Secretary Opiyo Wandayi for recalling of the product deepened the saga, with oil marketers saying the product is already mixed with previous stocks in the Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) system, making it impossible to retrieve it.

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