Kenya has decided to shelve its plan to provide cheap cooking gas to millions of poor households after the pre-qualified supplier delivered unsafe 6kg cylinders.
The government was to buy five million gas cylinders by the end of 2019, fill them with gas and distribute them to the low and middle-income households at a reduced cost of Ksh2,000 ($20). The programme was meant to subsidize the cost of cooking fuel for the poor especially in the rural areas in the next three years.
Now, the plan has been put on hold.