GAS Cartels

Pro Gas Yard
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Kumbe wewe ni dereva wa NPR?

Explain to us who aren’t in the biz what this yard pictures mean.

What’s the story here?
Wacha udigiri.

Kumbe unatumia mukovero

Hizi mitungi they better not try to fill them and send them to customers. They look rusted

Thts the main idea. Get competitor cylinders off the market, let them rust at Pro Gas yard, flood the market with Pro Gas Cylinders.
Change the laws prohibiting refilling of competitor cylinders

what Pro Gas is doing is the same as EABL buying all keroche bottles from the market and destroying them.

Ah nimekuelewa. This is something Citizen TV Waihiga Mwaura and Asha Mwilu can cover for their next investigative journalism topic.

Hehehe kuna walalo mwenzangu anatengeneza mitungii hapa Inda…kumbe kazi yake inaozea kwa kichaka ? Wah

Did Progas set up kiosks to buy competitors’ cylinders or customers exchanged the cylinders because progas was the only gas in their corner shop?

wekanga story in full.
ulianza na udigi meffi ya kuweka picha pekee

Huyu ndiye mwenye Pro Gas Mohamed Jaffer their mitungi are pink in colour.
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Let me copy paste this article before Tuko gets pressured to take it down.

[SIZE=7]How Mombasa tycoon’s Pro Gas killed a subsidised government gas project[/SIZE]
Author: Douglas Mwarua
UPDATED: 13 HOURS AGO

When Government announced a subsidised gas project in October 2016, it brought a ray of hope for Kenyans who often relied on firewood and kerosene, two energy sources that are not only inefficient but had them breathing in toxic fumes.

Mwananchi Gas project was to sell under the Gas Yetu brand and was meant to safeguard the poor from respiratory diseases caused by the use of firewood for cooking.

It was also meant to contain the rampant destruction of forests.

In 2017 Gas Yetu was allocated KSh 2.2 billion for the period 2017-2019.

A further KSh700 million was allocated through a supplementary budget raising the total cost of the project to KSh 2.9 billion.
The project would have seen millions of households receive subsidised 6kg cooking gas cylinders at a cost of KSh 2,000.

Five million households were targeted with the Gas Yetu cylinders fitted with burners and grills

The beneficiaries would refill them at a cost of only Ksh840 per cylinder.

This was however not to be, 2 years since it was launched Energy and Mining Principal Secretary Joseph Njoroge says government shelved it due to budget issues.
However an investigation into what led to the collapse of the project reveals a well calculated plan by Pro Gas owner Mohammed Jaffer to kill Gas Yetu.

It all started with a contract awarded by the Petroleum Ministry and the National Oil Corporation of Kenya (Nock) to a consortium led by Allied East Africa Ltd.

[SIZE=5]MOHAMMED JAFFER[/SIZE]
Having gotten the tender, but with no capacity to deliver, the consortium turned to Mohammed Jaffer owner of Africa Gas and Oil (AGOL) which also owns Proto Energy Limited under which Pro Gas is sold.

The company was then just beginning and was virtually unknown in the country.

Jaffer had however managed to obtain a lease for use of a cylinder pressing machine from KPA in a deal that seems to have been orchestrated by officials from the Energy Ministry.

The fraudulent suppliers, in the first batch, delivered faulty cylinders raising questions about quality assurance and monitoring of the manufacturing process.

Gas entering Kenya from Tanzania was found to contain dangerously high portions of propane in relation to butane.

It was also discovered that LPG from the neighbouring country did not have the chemical additive ethyl mercaptan (the rotten egg-like oduor) which makes it easy for users to easily detect leakages.

Unlike gas coming in through Mombasa port which is subjected to several quality tests, that coming in through land borders such as Namanga is not vetted or weighed.

A total of 67,251 cylinders were found to be leaking posing a serious safety hazard had they gone into circulation.

This however seemed to be part of the grand plan to kill the project as then PS Andrew Kamau cancelled the tender purchase order of 357,000 cylinders despite money having been paid out to East Africa Allied and Mohammed Jaffer.

The PS also cancelled another purchase order of 700,000 cylinders with little explanation as to how the total budgetary allocation that had risen to KSh 2.9 billion had been spent.

This necessitated Consumers Federation of Kenya (COFEK) to sue Government in October 2018.

COFEK told court the Government’s ambitious programme to buy and supply 5 million subsidised gas cylinders to low- and middle-income households by end of 2019 was in jeopardy as 60% of the cylinders delivered were faulty.

[SIZE=5]PRO GAS[/SIZE]
As Kenyans continued wondering why the Gas Yetu project is not taking off despite the immense benefits it would have afforded them, a new player in the market was beginning to emerge.

With it’s bright pink coloured cylinders, Jaffer’s Pro Gas was starting to penetrate into the market offering gas cylinders at cheaper rates than competitors.

Pro Gas with the help of Energy CS Charles Keter, PS Njoroge and other government officials at the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) and Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) continues to engage in illegal and unfair trade practices to gain an edge over competitors.

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On June 20, 2019 at Southernsun, Mayfair Hotel in Nairobi, members of the LPG Cylinder Exchange Pool lamented the unfair practices by Pro Gas.

Minutes of the meeting also indicate that members voted for pricing formulas with majority preferring cylinder cost minus validation cost to remain competitive.

However EPRA went against the norm and published new rates.

In a public notice issued July 25, 2019, EPRA announced a new deposit rate of Ksh2,170.03 for the 6kg cylinder and Ksh 3,588.86 for the 13kg cylinder.

These rates, according to members of the exchange pool, are in bad faith and are bound to resort in massive losses.

Despite numerous complaints to EPRA, no action is taken against Pro Gas.

Exchange Pool members now say they have evidence that a top official in the ministry has been receiving KSh 30 million monthly in bribes while other officials at EPRA pocket not less than KSh 10 million each month.

This is also the case at KRA with senior officials receiving millions of shillings monthly to turn a blind eye to Jaffer’s indiscretions.

The tycoon has also ensured results of any parliamentary committee investigations favour him and his businesses.

To date, there have been more than five investigations on the unfair monopoly by his companies including Grain Bulk Handling Limited (GBHL) but no action has been taken.

Jaffer has now completely taken over the imports, distribution and retail business in the LPG sector undercutting other companies and driving them out of business all together.

DCI

In October 2018, at the height of the Gas Yetu scandal, DCI George Kinoti said he will begin investigations into the loss of billions.

[INDENT]“We will initiate a probe. We cannot allow a programme that is funded by taxpayers to put Kenyan citizens at risk,” said Mr Kinoti.[/INDENT]
Almost one year later though, no investigations have been done and no one has been taken to court over the scam raising questions about how many agencies are on the take from Mohammed Jaffer.

This as 80% of Kenyans who use firewood and kerosene continue to suffer at the hands of cartels at the Energy Ministry.

EABL back in the day agreed to exchange beer bottles with castle lager but all they were doing at ruaraka was crushing castle lager bottles until they ran out of bottles. Later EABL changed their own bottles

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Hizo ma cylinders ni kaa ngapi multiplied by x. Iko profit kweli?

Ktalk google earth CSI

cartels… and this guyhas been a good “friend” of the govt like deepak kamani… and more so Agwambo

Mwanaume mgani atanunua gas ya pink.

Me niko nayo…hii gas ni cheap sana…kununua mtungi yao ni 3000 pekee…500 cheaper than everyone else…wanachafua soko kuchafua…kama kila duka wako na gas yao huku kitengela