Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich insisted that the 16 percent fuel tax will be implemented on September 1 as it is law.
This means that effective midnight, fuel prices will go up.
However Kenyans did not take it lightly as this is likely to increase prices on everything and anything.
Kenyans have however gone online to vent following the increase.
Here are some online reactions
Let’s start the new week in action, @bonifacemwangi lead us in a super demo to the Treasury to kick out @HKRotich the most arrogant, incompetent and corrupt CS treasury.#TeamCourage#PunguzaBeiYaMafuta
— Caleb Simba (@Caleb_simba) September 1, 2018
#PunguzaBeiYaMafuta
Why aren’t people concerned with the fact that Turkana oil is being exported to the pleasure of profiteering cartels while local pump prices continue to rise?— T. Sankara (@MB_Tyger) September 1, 2018
I thought that one of the
purposes of taxation is to rob
the rich and pay the poor. But
in kenya, the vice versa is
happening.#PunguzaBeiYaMafuta.— Benard Njatha (@BNjathaH) September 1, 2018
Mr Rotich and the entire leadership of GoK is just failing and falling deep. An introduction of 16% VAT on Petroleum products should be accompanied by 16% pay rise.@SpokespersonGoK @UKenyatta @RailaOdinga@HKRotich #PunguzaBeiYaMafuta
— Suter (@Suter62623796) September 1, 2018
I can’t get this shit with ERC when the global oil prices reduces the Kenyan fuel prices shoots up, I can’t get the logic behind that#PunguzaBeiYaMafuta
— Stewart Ajele ???? (@stewartajele) September 1, 2018
They promised to lower electricity tariffs but instead it became expensive. Now we have fuel levy to deal with. Who will hear our cries. #PunguzaBeiYaMafuta
— Domicile herb (@domicileherb) September 1, 2018
This government is for the faint hearted. 16% VAT on fuel, 1.5% to fund Housing big 4 agenda.
Who will stop this reggae
#PunguzaBeiYaMafuta— Domicile herb (@domicileherb) September 1, 2018
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.#PunguzaBeiYaMafuta
— Asaph (@asaph_ray) September 1, 2018
A somewhat positive thing to come out from #PunguzaBeiYaMafuta, maybe we will finally begin to interrogate some of the places our government goes begging for loans from. IMF is definitely not a friend of Kenya.
— Mike Rono (@MikeRONO) September 1, 2018
#PunguzaBeiYaMafuta i don’t understand how we be producing oil na bei ya mafuta… pic.twitter.com/kvQZmah2iD
— Ösok (@Osok41186627) September 1, 2018
One day the poor in kenya will have nothing left to eat, and that day they will turn aganist rich. KENYA will be liberated from her worst enemy. #PunguzaBeiYaMafuta
— Kelvins Spencer (@Spencerblogger) September 1, 2018