Kenya on the spot over tender for cheap cooking gas to private firm
A cooking gas distributer. A Kenyan government initiative dubbed Project Mwananchi, was meant to subsidise the cost of cooking gas for the poor, especially in rural areas. FILE PHOTO | NMG
The Kenyan government is on the spot for ceding the importation of liquefied petroleum gas to a private company, something that has made efforts to make cooking gas affordable and accessible to the majority come to naught.
Despite implementing fiscal policies, subsiding cylinders and going to the extent of launching a cooking gas programme to make gas affordable to the common man, industry players contend that ceding the bulk importation of LPG to Africa Gas and Oil Ltd has denied the country the benefits of cheap cooking gas.
