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William Ruto calls out corrupt officials causing high fuel prices

by Enock Ndayala
Deputy President William Rutonet worth, family, marriage and education as compiled from available data. Photo: William Ruto/twitter.

Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto has hit out at corrupt government officials over the historic high fuel prices in Kenya.

The deputy president on Tuesday, October 12, said unscrupulous petrol businessmen were using the ministry to manipulate the prices of the essential commodity to boost their profits.

According to him, some of the private companies have colluded with corrupt government officials who have allocated them a whooping KSh12 per litre, a move he says is to blame for skyrocketing fuel prices.

William Ruto calls out corrupt officials causing high fuel prices
Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto has hit out at corrupt government officials over the historic high fuel prices in Kenya. Photo: William Ruto/Facebook.

Ruto further asked the Ministry of Petroleum and Mining to deal with the cartels responsible for the high cost of fuel.

“Decisions amongst them to ‘gift’ Ksh12 per litre to private companies causing the punitive fuel costs while cartels rake super profits must be reversed asap and all corrupt public officials involved and or benefiting prosecuted,” Ruto said in a Tweet.

The deputy president further called for the liberalisation of the petroleum market to cushion Kenyans from greedy businessmen.

“Price controls must be removed for competition to lower prices,” he added.

Ruto who was speaking at his Karen residence on Monday, October 11, when he met grassroots leaders from Kigumo Constituency, Murang’a County, Ruto wondered why the cost of petrol in Kenya was higher than in Uganda, a landlocked country that relies on Kenya for its petroleum imports.

“By protecting the cartels and aiding a few companies to make super-profits, the state Department of Petroleum is hurting Kenyans,” he said.

On September 14, 2021, the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) announced new historic-high fuel prices.

Following the increase, super petrol, diesel, and kerosene went up to KSh134.72, KSh115.60, and KSh110.82 per litre respectively, in Kenya’s capital city Nairobi.

This comes at a time when the ERC is set to review this month’s prices, which is expected to come out on Thursday, October 14.

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