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Friday, September 16, 2022 –Azimio la Umoja and their Kenya Kwanza counterparts continued to trade barbs over the current state of affairs on the oil prices in the country.
Notably on Thursday September 15 afternoon, Azimio la Umoja’s Embakasi East Member of Parliament, Paul Ongili or Babu Owino took a swipe at poor Kenyans for voting in a regime that was not competent enough to lower the cost of living despite having been promised so.
He added that it was interesting to see Dr. William Ruto and his new team in power struggle to confront challenges facing millions of poor Kenyans whom they had promised ease of life once they take charge.
“We wanted freedom and it’s finally here as fuel prices hike. We are back in the jungle. Hii celebration imekuwa fupi kama mapenzi ya kuku (your celebration is at short-lived as the love between two a cock and a hen),” Babu Owino mocked.
But in contrast, Kandara Member of Parliament MP Alice Wahome, a close ally of Ruto, detailed the intrigues behind the delays in the announcement of fuel prices for the period starting September 15 to October 14.
Speaking on Thursday, September 15, Ms Wahome intimated that the new head of State wanted fuel cost lowered as soon as possible but was astounded by the report he had just received from the Ministry of Petroleum.
“I am privy to the report that the President received on the cost of fuel and it was nearly impossible for him to reduce the cost but it will only be a matter of time before the issue is sorted,” she stated, defending the high record fuel prices released by the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority EPRA close to midnight on the previous day.
She went ahead to urge the country to remain patient as this quagmire is sorted once and for all by the new administration.
Earlier, former Gatundu MP Moses Kuria had accused Uhuru Kenyatta’s government of hiding cartels who have been benefiting from the subsidy programme by pocketing billions meant to lower the cost of fuel in the country.
He was speaking this of the Hard Tackle online programme.
