President William Ruto now says Kenyans will have to wait a little longer to get cheap gas.
The President said on Sunday that the 2023/23 budget must first be past before his long-awaited affordable gas hits the market.
He said what the government had been working on was efforts to lower the cost of cylinders so as to reduce the burden on Kenyans.
The President said early plans to have remove taxes on gas did not succeed in the supplementary budget and therefore it will take longer.
''If we had succeeded to have that in the supplementary budgetary budget, then that would have happened from June 1,'' Ruto said during a joint media interview at State House.
''We realised that if we had to do that then it would have required that we amend some law but as you can see we have that in the current budget.''
The President said once the budget is passed and the Finance Bill 2023, enacted into law, then Kenyans will start enjoying cheap gas.
''We have to remove all the illegal fillers because they are undermining our efforts...what we were reducing between Sh300-500 is the gas cylinder then you will be able to refill gas,'' Ruto said.
The Finance Bill, 2023 has been tabled in Parliament and has scrapped VAT so that Kenyans start enjoying cheap.
