Motorists in Kenya endured another day of fuel shortages on Monday as Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta signed a supplementary budget for the fiscal year which allocated an additional 35 billion shillings (roughly €250 million) for the country’s fuel subsidy program, his office said.
While the Kenyan government blamed panic buying and hoarding, it said it would pay fuel subsidies to retailers this week to offset fears that shortages are on the horizon.
The government announcement comes after several days of lengthy queues at filling stations, often with limits on how much fuel people can buy, if any is left at all.
One motorist in the capital Nairobi told Reuters she had to go to several petrol stations and was considering taking her company’s fleet of vehicles off the road as a result.
Evelyn Njenga, whose family operates a fleet of commercial pick-up trucks, said, “We will start parking the cars at home.”


















