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Petrol crisis hits North Rift, western Kenya
Motorcycle riders queue to fuel at one of the few petrol stations that had petrol in Eldoret town, Uasin Gishu County on March 28, 2022. PHOTO | JARED NYATAYA | NMG
An acute shortage of petrol hit Western Kenya, the North Rift and many parts of rural Kenya mostly supplied by independent oil marketers as the independent petroleum dealers blamed the crunch in the region to a mismatch in oil pricing.
Dealers said wholesalers had stopped supplying them wary of government commitment to a State subsidy amid calls of assurance of compensation by wholesalers to enable them release the fuel.
