By Mangoa Mosota
Kenya Shell has resumed business in Western Kenya after a four-year absence.
The company opened Kisumu retail station last weekend and is planning to open another six in the next one year.
Managing Director Mr Patrick Obath said some of the new stations will be opened in Eldoret and Bungoma. “Our investment in Western Kenya will go hand in hand with the re-branding of BP retail sites to Shell,” said the MD.
He blamed dumping of counterfeit oil products for the closure of Kenya Shell retail outlets in the region four years ago. “There was dumping of export oil that was meant for export. This unfair competition forced us to close in 2003,” said Obath.
Opening the Kisumu station, Trade Permanent Secretary, Mr David Nalo, said the Kenya Revenue Authority has created a fair playing field by clamping on fuel destined for export market. “The introduction of Simba System in 2005 by KRA curtailed the malpractice and has restored confidence in the oil industry.”
The PS said the East African Community Customs Union and the recent admission of Rwanda and Burundi into the economic integration will enhance cross-border trade. “Kenyan manufacturers and exporters will have access to a bigger market for their products in the EAC,” he said.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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