Residents of Embu were on Friday supplied with gas cylinders. Photo/the-star.co.ke

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The Government has distributed  cooking gas cylinders to poor household in Embu.

The initiative was  partnership between the government and National Oil Company.

The project, dubbed Mwananchi Gas, will see 4.3 million new cooking gas cylinders distributed to Kenyan households in the next three years.

Embu County Commissioner Esther Maina said the project, which is expected to cost Sh5.6 billion a year aims at increasing cooking gas penetration in the country from the current nine percent to 45 per cent.