Turkana Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/turkana/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 26 Aug 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Turkana Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/turkana/ 32 32 Kenya waves off its first shipment of crude oil https://jjcornish.com/2019/08/kenya-waves-off-its-first-shipment-of-crude-oil/ Mon, 26 Aug 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/08/kenya-waves-off-its-first-shipment-of-crude-oil/ Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta pulled out the bells and whistles to wave off his country’s first shipment of crude oil. At the ceremony in Mombasa, he warned of the possibility of corruption tainting Kenya’s black gold.   The crude oil, bound for Malaysia was transported by road to Mombassa from Turkana 850 kms away. The […]

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]]> Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta pulled out the bells and whistles to wave off his country’s first shipment of crude oil.

At the ceremony in Mombasa, he warned of the possibility of corruption tainting Kenya’s black gold.

 

The crude oil, bound for Malaysia was transported by road to Mombassa from Turkana 850 kms away.

The shipment of 200 000 barrels is testing Kenya’s export capacity using the Chinese firm ChemChina.

By the time  Kenya goes into full production in 2014, there should be a pipeline from the oil field to the port.

Kenya will earn R1,3 billion from oil sales over the next two years.

President Uhuru Kenyatta says local communities will be the first to benefit from Kenya’s new wealth.

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