Government temporarily relaxes fuel quality standards amid supply concerns

The cabinet secretary for investments, trade, and industry, Lee Kinyanjui, has announced that the ministry has temporarily waived fuel standards to ensure continued supply following disruptions to supply routes. Just weeks ago, a similar waiver caused the arrest and resignation of the petroleum principal secretary, the director general of the energy and petroleum regulatory authority, and the managing director of the Kenya Pipeline Company. A matter on which the government has gone mum, with the director of public prosecutions, Renson Gonga, telling Citizen TV that he has yet to receive the investigations file from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations.