The Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) on Friday the 14th Of June 2019, increased the price of a litre of petrol (super petrol) by 3.07 Kenyan Shillings and the price of diesel by 0.39 Kenyan Shillings.
It stated that the new prices, are inclusive of the eight percent Value Added Tax (VAT).
The regulator (EPRA), also announced a decrease in kerosene prices which will go down by 0.34 Kenyan Shillings per litre.
The Director General Robert Oimeke made it known that, “The changes in this months’ prices have been as a consequence of the average landed cost of imported Super petrol increasing by 4.54 percent from $514.72 per cubic meter in April 2019 to $535.08 in May 2019, Diesel increasing by 0.52 from $533 per cubic meter to $535.84 per cubic meter and Kerosene decreasing by 0.43 percent from $535.17 per cubic meter to $532.89 per cubic meter,”.
