A pump attendant at a fuel station in Nyeri town on August 14, 2020. Petrol and diesel sales continued to recover in July with the easing of movement restrictions.
The latest data from Epra also indicates that dealers sold 174 million litres of super petrol and 217 million litres of diesel, up from the 144 and 187 million litres sold last month.
Recovery of sales volumes and the emergency supply now makes for a market correction badly disrupted by the pandemic since March.
Petrol and diesel sales continued to recover in July with the easing of movement restrictions and revision of curfew hours giving motorists more hours on the road.
The rapid recovery from June caused supply constraints forcing the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority to seek emergency supply early this month to avert a crisis.
