Rubis Energy Kenya has come under fire for increasing the prices of their products for up to Kshs 600.
As from Monday, one would require Kshs8,760 to refill a 35kg gas cylinder much higher than the initial price which was 8,191 after VAT was included.
The 13kg gas will be going for Kshs,3340 while the 6kg one will be sold at Ksh1, 560.
Kenya is a K-family business! Case in point Rubis… how much is brookside milk?? pic.twitter.com/HViD4CilVZ
— Beata mbutei (@beatambutei) March 7, 2022
Questions have now been raised as who is the owner of the energy company that is so keen on exploiting Kenyans that much.
Kenyans on Twitter have concluded that the company does not belong to the Kenyatta family after two Tangatanga leaders were captured talking about it.
According to a video that was shared online, Kapseret MP Oscar Sudi could be heard telling his Kimilili counterpart Didmus Barasa to sell his petrol station to Rubis so as to raise his campaigns funds
“Sudi unajua hii campaign inakuwa very expensive na niko na kashamba huko Kitengela nilikuwa nataka nijenge flats so nimeamua kutafuta mtu nimuuzie kapetrol station kangu kale kwasababu watu wananiambia mafuta haifanyi vizuri,” Barasa said.
Sudi responds by asking him to find Rubis and sell them the station because they are readily available.
“Petrol station? Si utafute Rubis, haujjui Rubis ile unaona iko kila mahali ilianza 2-3 years ago lakini iko all over wananunua hata petrol station iko na machine mbili lakini wanakupatia bei mzuri sana, hujui Rubis wewe, wako kwa gas, wanaimport mafuta wenyewe tafuta tu mtu yako atafute contacts za Rubis,” Sudi says.
Barasa goes ahead and calls one of his men, directing him to find the contacts of Rubis and a buyer of the petrol station but directs that it should not be known that he is the one who is the seller.
LEAKED: Oscar Sudi advising broke Didmus Baraza to sell his petrol station to Rubis to raise campaign money, implicitly confirms Rubis isn’t owned by the Kenyatta family as they claim in rallies. pic.twitter.com/7bU3XUGDQf
— kanyango Githae (@BenKanyango) March 7, 2022
Reacting to the clip however, the two leaders are believed to have been marketing the energy company thus erasing doubt that the company belongs to the Kenyatta family.
“Didimus Barasa is broke he went to cry in Oscar Sudi house, he wants to dispose off his petrol station of 2 pumps deep in the village. Sudi advises him to sell it to Rubis-So it is propaganda that Rubis is owned by Kenyatta,” Amakanji wrote.
“This looks like an advert,” Owuor Webster said.
“Poor acting, they should just stick to politicking,” another twitter user said.
Rubis, for a long time, has been linked to the first family and was accused to be behind the sharp rise in fuel prices.
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