Manufacturers of vegetable oils in Kenya have petitioned the Treasury to scrap the 10 percent import duty tax on imported crude palm oil that has raised the price of the commodity, significantly making life unbearable to a majority of Kenyans.
Billow Kerrow, the spokesman of the Edible Oil Manufacturers Association of Kenya, revealed on Wednesday that the association has written to the National Treasury to have the tax removed or risk making the locally made products lose their competitiveness.
