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The Energy Regulatory Commission has announced marginal reductions in pump prices for petrol for a third month in a row.

Motorists will pay one shilling less for a litre of super petrol.

A litre of diesel will however go up by Sh1.39 as well as kerosene, which goes up by Sh0.86.

ERC in a statement attributes the reduced petroleum pump prices to a lower average landed cost of super petrol which decreased by 3.1 percent.

The landed cost of diesel, however, increased by 4.03 percent and that of kerosene also went up by 2.48 percent hence the consequent increase in the prices of the two commodities.

ERC Acting Director General Pavel Oimeke says the commission used a pipeline loss factor of 0.02 percent in computing pump prices, down from the previous 0.25 percent.