Fuel crisis: Inside Kenya's Ksh17B debt amid looming shortage and price hike

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : The crisis shows wide gaps in funding the petroleum levy and energy stability.
51% : The levy was to be implemented to keep consumers from being affected by high fuel prices in other parts of the world and to provide a stabilisation fund for the government to use to pay for low prices at the pump.
51% : The government-to-government (G-to-G) fuel importation scheme proposed by President William Ruto's government was going to stabilise the market with a view to reducing the need for dollars and easing pressure on the shilling.
50% : The crisis has put the Petroleum Development Levy fund under more public scrutiny.
48% : The Ksh17 billion fuel debt owed by Kenya to oil marketers exposes significant gaps in the financing of the petroleum levy and energy stability.
45% : Kenyans have been paying billions in the levy every month, but at a time when people need it, the stabilisation programme is suffering funding problems.
44% : It has now become a wider fiscal management and transparency issue, and if the billions collected by the Petroleum Development Levy have been sustainably managed to cushion consumers in times of economic shock.
43% : The subsidy programme The crux of the issue is the Petroleum Development Levy (PDL), which is a tax the Kenyans pay on every litre of fuel they buy.

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