High fuel costs are crippling the flow of Kenya’s economy, a leading business lobby warned on Wednesday.

Transport operators across Kenya have announced a nationwide shutdown, citing rising fuel prices, heavy taxation, and unsustainable operating costs.

Commuters were stranded and businesses disrupted as anger over rising fuel costs spilled onto Kenya’s roads.

Kenya’s transport strike over soaring fuel prices crippled Nairobi, stranded commuters and raised fears of wider supply-chain disruption across East Africa

High fuel prices in Kenya have forced some public transport operators in the North Rift to cross the border to Uganda to buy the commodity.

The government merely treats the symptom while leaving the disease untouched.