Pipeline deadlock surfaces at Kenya's bilateral talks with France

President Uhuru Kenyatta addresses the Kenyan business community and their French counterparts during a breakfast meeting in Paris. [PHOTO:PSCU}

Total France, the oil company many Kenyans think is to blame for the gridlock in the Kenya-Uganda Pipeline, won’t be snared out of their silence on the ongoing saga.

Yesterday, France-Eastern Africa Business Council president Momar Nguer, who is also the head of Total Marketing and Services, declined to comment on the saga, only saying ‘a solution will be found soon’. Both Kenya and France were cautious on the issue citing that the two countries directly involved are still in negotiations.