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Plan to block Lamu coal power plant

Activist Okiya Omtatah during an interview with The Standard. [David Njaaga/Standard]

A planned multi-billion shilling coal power plant in Lamu ran into more challenges after a human rights activist petitioned the High Court to stop it.

Mr Okiya Omtatah filed a petition at the High Court yesterday seeking temporary orders prohibiting General Electric Company (GE) from implementing the project.

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