Bergeron’s deportation papers were also signed after a meeting between President Uhuru Kenyatta and Energy CS Monica Juma over the acute shortage of fuel in the country. According to the latest data by the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority, Rubis is the third-largest oil firm in Kenya, controlling about 8.6% of the local market. This action comes just days after the announced measures to be taken against oil marketers behind the scarcity of the commodity. Kiptoo explained that the authority had gone through data spanning 4 weeks and established that some of the oil marketers were in violation of the law. As a result, the authority has sanctioned the affected oil marketers by introducing a raft of measures that will be implemented in the next three months.

Source: Daily Nation April 14, 2022 03:44 UTC