Kenya: Villagers Disappointed As Oil Company Ditches Them
February 23, 2020
8:46 am
In the unforgiving sun and high temperatures of Nakukulas, Lokichar, Turkana County, Julius Loyolo seeks shade under a tree in the middle of a dry river bed.
This is their norm. Every day here he joins other elders as they discuss in the local language the issues that affect the community.
In Nakukulas village, just next to the Ngamia 8 crude oil storage site, where President Uhuru Kenyatta had in June 2018 flagged off the first four trucks to transport crude oil by road from Turkana to Mombasa, the elders are tired of discussing oil benefits that many believe
