Is Ukraine-born inflation getting too hot? Let fuel thieves cool it
Uganda should now be designing a new campaign to sensitise the public on how to handle stolen petrol without getting burned. ILLUSTRATION | JOHN NYAGA | NMG
One rather amazing phenomenon in Uganda today is the ‘refusal’ by public passenger transporters to raise fares despite the ‘refusal’ by the government to intervene in taming the fuel prices that started rising over five months ago, when the Russia-Ukraine conflict broke out.
But did the government really refuse to intervene? Many motorists, passenger transporters and some of the one million boda boda riders think the government has actually been subsidising them by not stopping its drivers and transport officers from stealing its fuel and selling it cheaper than the pump prices.
