Author: Kelly Obaete

Consumer prices of cooking gas in Kenya are on the rise clocking over Kes400 jump for a 13-kilogramme cylinder as marketers reviewed their rates on account of higher global prices of the commodity and a tanking Kenya shilling against the dollar. For the majority of urban dwellers, the cost of living is becoming expensive each and every day, and gas prices have increased by roughly 30 percent in recent months. Which begs the question: how are gas customers adjusting to living under these conditions? Some have chosen to go back to the old jiko only to realize that charcoal prices are equally high, almost competing…