Big Kenyan Towns Hit Hard By Cooking Gas Shortages - Going On 3 Months In Some Areas - AllAfrica

An acute shortage of liquefied petroleum (cooking) gas has hit major towns countrywide. A Sunday Nation survey yesterday showed that some dealers had not received fresh supplies for the past three months.

And customers interviewed complained of difficulty in getting the commodity, forcing them to resort to other fuels.

Attendants at the BP filling station at Ngara in Nairobi, Mr Sylvester Mutuku and Ms Roselyne Kanguhia, said they had been without gas for three months. "Customers have been complaining, and when we send them to the depot, they are sent back to us, but we have no gas since we rely on the depot for supplies," Mr Mutuku said.

At Mobil Mart of Pangani and the Total station in Juja Road, attendants said they had been having a shortage for a week as they had a huge supply. Mr Ernest Mwangi attributed the shortage to inadequate supplies from the Mombasa Kenya Petroleum Refineries. "Whenever we place our orders at the depot in (Nairobi's) industrial area for supplies, we are told to wait, only to be told that gas is not available," he said.

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