Senate: 60 days for DCI, EPRA and KPC to close the fuel-data cases

Sixty days, then a single memo. That is the order the Senate Standing Committee on Energy wrote for the files on former Petroleum Principal Secretary Mohamed Liban, former Kenya Pipeline Company managing director Joe Sang and former EPRA Director-General Daniel Kiptoo, Eastleigh Voice reported on 24 August 2026.

The three were arrested on 2 April 2026 and later walked on cash bail after days in cells. DCI has not published findings, even after detectives went to Saudi Arabia. The committee says ongoing administrative, disciplinary or criminal steps should finish “expeditiously but without prejudice to due process,” and that Energy, the Public Service Commission, the State Corporations Advisory Committee, the EPRA and KPC boards and investigators must file progress, findings and outcomes within 60 days of the report’s adoption. The alleged offence: twisting stock data to justify emergency petrol while government-to-government contracts with Saudi Aramco Trading Fujairah, ADNOC Global Trading and Emirates National Oil Company Singapore were said to be performing — and buying a cargo that was overpriced and off specification. The wider shock: an 85,000 metric-tonne Gulf Energies cargo stuck at Jebel Ali after Iran shut the Strait of Hormuz. On 19 March Kenya had 124.39 million litres, about 16 days, implying a possible stock-out from 4 April. On 25 March One Petroleum and Oryx Energies each got 81.3 million litres; Hass Petroleum and E3 Energy also tendered. Later both firms were tapped for 60,000 tonnes each outside the G2G window. One Petroleum found a BP ship headed to Angola; the cargo missed Kenyan specs; a recall was ordered after product had already mixed in KPC tanks. Oryx protested when its ship was already at Mombasa. One Petroleum told the Senate it has not sued and no penalties have been imposed. The committee also wants, within six months, a statutory emergency-procurement law; real-time digital stock; EPRA to enforce 30-day oil-marketer reserves; a six-month national strategic stock goal; a look at a planned Dangote refinery in Mombasa for storage; and Article 47 process if officers are removed. A 60-day Senate clock is not a charge under ACECA. The DPP still owns the criminal file.

Sixty days is a status memo, not a verdict

Energy, EPRA and KPC should date the adoption of the report so the 60-day line can be counted. DCI should say whether ACECA charges were ever drawn.

Energy desk: Energy & Transport. Verified 2 April arrests, 60-day order, 124.39 million litres and 81.3 million-litre awards from Eastleigh Voice / Senate report as cited.

The committee clerk should publish the adoption date. One Petroleum’s “no claim” line should be in the tabled papers, not only a quote.

Pump-side readers should treat March–April 2026 as the shortage window already passed, and watch the six-month law, not this week’s pump.

Readers should cross-check any deadline, fee, court date or programme claim against primary gazettes, agency circulars and court records before acting on this report.

Official gazettes, court rulings and agency circulars may update these facts after publication; readers should verify any deadline, fee or court date against primary sources before acting.

Based on Eastleigh Voice reporting of the Senate Energy committee report. Bail amounts and the adoption date were not in that account.