The government has said that fuel prices will remain unchanged for the next 30 days after intervention from President Uhuru Kenyatta.
According to a statement from State House Spokesperson Kanze Dena, Super Petrol will retail at Ksh 159.12 per litre.
Dena’s Thursday, July 14 statement further stated that Diesel will continue retailing at Ksh140 per litre while Kerosene will cost Kenyans Ksh127.94.
Fuel prices remained unchanged following Uhuru’s authorisation of Ksh16.7 billion in fuel subsidy.
“It is notified that His Excellency the President has today authorized an additional fuel subsidy of Ksh16.675 billion, so as to cushion Kenyans from a further increase in fuel prices,” the statement read in part.
“With today’s presidential action, diesel will continue to retail at Ksh140.00, petrol at Ksh159.12 and Kerosine at Ksh127.94. Without such State interventions, the pump prices would have been Ksh193.64 for diesel, Ksh209.95 for petrol and Ksh181.13 for Kerosene.”
The fuel prices have been on a steady increase since February 2022. The costs of super petrol, diesel and kerosene at the time were Ksh129.72, Ksh110.60 and Ksh103.54 respectively and had been set in October 2021.
In March, the government increased the cost of fuel per litre by Ksh5 which saw petrol retail at Ksh134.72, diesel at Ksh115.60 and kerosene at Ksh103.54.
During the April fuel price review, EPRA Director General, Daniel Kiptoo, revealed that the regulator had increased the maximum pump price of all fossil fuels by Ksh9.90.
In May, the government announced an increase of Ksh5.50 per litre for all fuel products, stating that it had placed a subsidy of Ksh26 for super, Ksh30 for diesel and Ksh50 for Kerosene.
