Epra to cut imports for marketers exporting more fuel causing shortage

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Residents of Nyeri town queue for fuel at a petrol station on April 11, 2022. NMG PHOTO | JOSEPH KANYI

The Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (Epra) has said they will reduce import allocations for oil marketing companies (OMCs) found to have increased their exports to regional markets in the past four weeks, subjecting Kenyans to a shortage of the commodity.

The energy regulator said on Tuesday in a statement that their analysis of the daily petroleum loadings for the past four weeks shows that some oil marketers gave priority to export while the local market faced a shortage.

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