Am afraid you are wrong in all the above. I worked for 6 months as a station manager under a shell dealership.

Until the other day when they started taking over previously independent stations, the practice before was for shell to put up the entire infrastructure, while you provide the land.

Even now, everything belongs to shell, including the pumps, tanks and fire fighting equipment. Everything has a shell sticker including the cage for gas cylinders. You only own the inventory.

An account manager has a target to drive sales but if you don't meet your target, they start threats of giving the station to someone else. It's why they will send you an email on 31st March and tell you you must buy lubricants worth a certain amount by end of day to meet the quarterly target. And you can't get fuel until you clear the lubricants invoice.

Let me explain how a take over happens because I experienced one. Senior guys show up early in the morning and they seal off the premises. Your employees are evicted. You cannot even access the office. They take charge and advise you to pursue your account settlement at their head office. If they tell you that your tanks were leaking and there is water in the fuel tank, your stocks worth like 6M is gone just like that. And they will deduct it from your deposit.

It's your land but can't access it anymore. For the senator, it's either that junior employees were unable to evict him or it's a strategic site and polycarp has an interest. Otherwise, this is a first time for a CEO to be involved in KYM tasks.

Yeah

On account of being frightened intensely, as goons were beckoned to pounce - his hands were trembling, a result of which the fingers accidentally pressed on the trigger

@FRM2011, your theory doesn't make sense. I presume that;
1. You enter into a signed agreement with Shell, so things are done per the agreement, issues of eviction must then follow the agreement.
2. The infrastructure that houses the station is yours and not shells so they can't really evict you, you can opt to take your business to the competition
3. Shell uses their sales people (account managers) whose core role is to drive sales, stock-outs and low sales is the responsibility of the sales team and account managers and not the station owner. Shell as a company is interested in pushing countrywide sales, and targets
4. I would expect fuel to have a separate account from lubricants such that your fuel account status is not affected by slow moving lubricants.

I tend to agree with @Sitakikujulikana's theory, this guy is a politician and I have learned to not trust them at all, they are all corrupt and think they can get away with anything, I bet he was selling adulterated fuel purchased from those dodgy trucks.

Never give a Kenyan politician the benefit of the doubt