The country is losing tax running into billions of shillings through illegal activities by unscrupulous dealers in petroleum products, Energy Regulatory Commission Acting Director General Robert Pavel Oimeke has said.
Oimeke said the money lost through fuel adulteration and diversion of export fuel by dishonest petroleum dealers would have been used to fund mega projects in the areas of education, health, infrastructure and security among others.
He made the remarks in a speech read on his behalf by the commission’s head of corporate communication Antoinette Kamau during a stakeholder sensitization forum for petroleum dealers from North Rift that was held at an Eldoret hotel.
Oimeke said the commission has partnered with various security agencies, the regional governments and stakeholders in the energy sector with a view to address the vice which he observed was still a major a challenge to eradicate.
“We are in partnership with other state agencies such as the National Police Service, county governments and stakeholders in the energy sector to expose those engaged in illegal petroleum business inn our efforts to protect the consumers,” said the director general.
He said the commission will endevor to use every platform to enhance awareness among stakeholders in the energy to sensitize them on various measures available for safe business.
