Oilibya petrol station attendants offload cooking gas cylinders from a truck on November 4, 2017. Prices of cooking gas in Kenya have been rising. PHOTO | FILE | NMG
Kenya has revived the stalled subsidy scheme for affordable cooking gas, with a Ksh471 million ($4.28 million) allocation for the new financial year starting July. The amount will be raised to Ksh820 million ($7.45 million) in the next financial year.
This marks a 203 percent rise compared with the current financial year where Ksh155 million ($1.41 million) had been allocated. The National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani, in a draft budget released last November, included a plan to distribute 300,000 six-kilogramme LPG cylinders to low-income households over the next three years.
