MP Ichungwah responds to Raila’s claims of G to G oils deals.
Kikuyu constituency MP Ichungwah responds to Raila’s claims of G to G oils deals; He highlighted that this part of the opposition’s propaganda to make Kenya kwanza look bad.
Opposition leader Raila Odinga had accused president Ruto of Handpicking Kenyan distributors in government-to-government deal as a State project to help these Kenyan Companies, Gulf Energy, Galana Oil Kenya Ltd, and Oryx Energies Kenya Limited, evade taxes.
In a defense, Ichungwah highlighted that the oil distributors were selected in an open tender system as they accounted for 80 per cent of all oil imports in the country.
Ichungwah stated,”For the benefit of Raila and his ilk, the three companies (Gulf Energy, Galana Oil Kenya Ltd and Oryx Energies Kenya Ltd) are not agents of the Kenya government and are doing logistics on behalf of (Aramco and ADNOC) the two-state corporations in Saudi and United Arab Emirates,”
“It is not the business of the Kenya government on who those corporations appoint as their Kenyan partners. Even under the Open Tender system, the three companies accounted for 80% of all oil imports in the country justifying their pick as the local logistics,” he added.
Notably, The legislator pointed out that the government to government oil deals, did not in any way affect Uganda’s oil imports since the country Uganda’s oil imports, since it independently procures its products and only ships them through Kenya’s pipeline.
Ichungwah stated,”In this case, he must desist from dragging Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni’s name in his shadowboxing against the Kenya Kwanza administration,”
“The assertion that the landing cost of oil products in our neighboring nations of Tanzania and Uganda is cheaper than Kenya is another flat lie and Odinga knows it,” he added.
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