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Uganda link in Kenya’s Sh12bn fuel import scam
Cabinet Secretary for Energy and Petroleum Opiyo Wandayi appearing before a joint sitting of the Senate Standing Committee on Energy and the National Assembly's Departmental Committee on Energy at County Hall, Nairobi on January 12, 2026
Uganda rejected Kenya’s request to use its fuel reserves in Kenya Pipeline Company’s network and stave off a petrol shortage, triggering arrests and a fallout over a Sh11.8 billion contested import cargo.
A confidential brief from former Petroleum Principal Secretary Mohamed Liban shows that Kenya sought an unspecified amount of the petrol meant for Uganda as one of the stop-gap measures to avert a shortage of the commodity from April 4.
