Why The Petrol Shortage In Kenya Will Get A Lot Worse

You arrive at a filling station with barely enough fuel only to be told the last thing you expected to hear. No fuel. The attendant is helpful and suggests a certain filling station right across town.

This is a common scene today in major towns of Kenya like Nairobi and Mombasa.
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So why is there a fuel shortage when the government is still insisting that there is enough fuel in the country? The explanation given is that the pipeline, which transports fuel from the refinery in Mombasa to the rest of the country, is operating at full capacity but is unable to meet the demand. Minister of Energy Kiraitu Murungi says that Kenyans will have to bare with the situation until December when the Kenya Pipeline parastatal that owns and runs the pipeline will have been able to double the current capacity.

Actually the question we should be asking is what triggered the crisis? Supporters of President Kibaki will be quick to say that it is the rapidly expanding economy hungry for fuel. Unfortunately the answer is no as simple as that. Nairobi is a major hub of activity in the region. Countless relief organizations covering a vast area in the region are all based in Nairobi. Recently there has been an increase in these relief activities, more so as the world has suddenly started paying much more attention to the unfolding crisis in Darfur. There is also increased military activity triggered off by an ongoing campaign to mow down suspected terrorist cell activities in Somalia. This has led to an escalation of fighting in that country, which has once again necessitated increased humanitarian aid. Let us also not forget our very own Mt Elgon skirmishes where humanitarian aid activity has risen considerably over the last few weeks.

It is quite possible that a combination of factors has caused the demand for fuel to peak rather suddenly and that is what has triggered the current crisis.

However there is one thing we can all be sure of. And that is the fact that it is bound to get worse. The reason is simple. Many motorists in Kenya have the habit of moving around with barely enough fuel. Now with the crisis, most people will purchase as much fuel as they can when they do find it. This sudden "hoarding" on a massive scale will make the situation a lot worse.

But there is one question we need to ask Mr Kiraitu Murungi and the bureaucrats at the Ministry of energy. Could they not have seen this crisis coming long before it happened?

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Kenya Airways Pilot Murdered By Two People With One AK47 Rifle

Captain John Ndung’u Mugwanja, who had also served in the Kenya Airforce, was shot dead at his house in Kamuguga area, near Zambezi in Kiambu district.

Muguga in the outskirts of Nairobi witnessed a rather bizarre incident yesterday when a Kenya Airways pilot was murdered in cold blood right in his house as his family witnessed. He was shot several times with what eyewitnesses say was an AK47 rifle.

Police say the pilot’s name was Captain John Ndung’u Mugwanja.

Although the thugs tried to make the whole incident look like a robbery, they failed miserably. They asked the man's wife for money, but when they reached him, they simply dragged him to the bathroom and shot him dead. The killing was carried out by two people while another 5 kept vigil outside.

The victim apparently knew what was coming and may have known the reason for his execution because his daughter said that he looked at her and then looked up towards heaven moments before the bullets brutally cut into him.

This incident is not about the escalating crime, but in fact it is about the increasing number of "executions" or "hits" in the country, which are never explained.

It is time for the authorities and especially the police whose favorite tactic is being economical with the facts, to tell Kenyans what is happening and why so many people are being murdered for no apparent reason.

Being a Kenya Airways captain, this latest victim's death is open to plenty of speculation. Could he have refused to co-operate with drug traffickers and this was a revenge execution? Or was the motive more personal?

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