Use of cooking gas up 15pc despite increasing prices

 Gas cylinders on display at Nairobi’s Pipeline Estate on October 9, 2022.

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Kenyans increased their consumption of cooking gas in the first eight months of this year by 15.4 percent despite a steady increase in the price of the commodity.

Official data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) shows that consumption of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) rose to a record 271,070 tonnes in the review period.

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