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Resource benefits slowly flowing into sleepy villages of Turkana

President Uhuru Kenyatta unveils a plaque at the Ngamia 8 Oil Well in Nakukulas, Turkana, yesterday. [Kevin Tunoi, Standard]

Kapese village might pass the cliché description of a sleepy village. Until recently, few people could trace it on the Kenyan map. It is however becoming increasingly popular and slowly creeping into the everyday talk among Kenyans.

Its popularity went a notch higher yesterday, when it hosted Kenya’s political and oil industry elite that had gone to witness President Uhuru Kenyatta flag off the first convoy of trucks ferrying crude oil from nearby oil fields to Mombasa.

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