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Wandayi failed to shield Kenyans high from fuel prices despite court order

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Energy CS Opiyo Wandayi with the outgoing CS Davis chirchir at Kawi complex in Nairobi after being handed over the office. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

Last Wednesday may have been his first day in office, but Opiyo Wandayi was also aware that it was one of those days that Kenyans waited with bated breath to see which way fuel prices would go.

He must have also been aware of the judgment by the Court of Appeal two weeks earlier that the Finance Act, 2023 was unconstitutional.

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