By Silvia Nyambura
The current low taxes on kerosene are encouraging greedy fuel dealers to mix kerosene with petrol so as to widen their profit margins, at the cost of the customer and the customer’s machines, especially vehicles.To minimize on the vice, Ivan Kyayonka, Vivo Energy Managing Director has called for a selection of measures that among others includes uniform taxation for all fuel products and then have the proceeds used to subsidize rural electrification and solar projects for rural areas.
Kyayonka who was speaking during the inauguration of the upgraded fuel laboratory at Vivo Energy’s 7th Street Industrial Area offices, said that for most vehicles, a mix of up to 20 percent of kerosene with either petrol or diesel mix will keep the vehicle moving, but will slowly kill it.
“We believe the removal of the excise duty on kerosene is the greatest motivation for unscrupulous people to mix petrol with kerosene and sell it to unsuspecting customers and the government needs to put counter measures in place to deal with this issue,