Lack of rules delay remittance of royalties to counties and locals

Base Resources, Kwale Sands Mine [File, Standard]

The Government is still holding on to hundreds of millions of shillings belonging to communities in mineral-rich regions citing lack of a framework through which it can forward the money to the communities.

Firms mining and exporting minerals have paid royalties amounting to billions of shillings to the State which it is supposed to share with the communities and devolved units where the minerals are being extracted.