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Chaos on the roads as high fuel costs bite

National Oil in Kisumu adjusts fuel prices on the station’s signboard on April 15, 2026, following a fuel price increase announced by EPRA. [Rodgers Otiso, Standard]

A spike in fuel prices was always expected to cut across the economy, nowhere more immediately than in the transport sector. But on Wednesday morning, Nairobi’s roads told a quieter, more telling story.

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