Why northern Kenya oil pipeline route is a better option

The proposed Kenya-Uganda oil pipeline route. Source: Tullow

NAIROBI: Kenyans should join President Uhuru Kenyatta in hoping that Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and President Paul Kagame of Rwanda will agree with him to route the regional crude oil pipeline from Kabaale, western Uganda, through Kainuk and Lokichar in Turkana County, Isiolo and Garissa counties to Lamu Port. Toyota Tusho, the contractor picked to carry out the project feasibility study, proposes that route.

Governors of the counties through which the pipeline is expected to pass would do well to be in the forefront persuading their people to give the national government all the ammunition it needs to persuade both its neighbours and the oil companies that the northern route is the better option.