Consumption of cooking gas in the six months to June dropped to a four-year low highlighting the impact of high prices of the commodity due to the re-introduction of Value Added Tax (VAT) and the Russia-Ukraine war.
Data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics show that homes and businesses used 123,150 tonnes of cooking gas in the period, a drop of 35 per cent from a similar period last year— the lowest consumption in a similar period since 2018.
