State should privatise Lamu Port to reap maximum benefits

A first cargo ship offloads containers at Lamu Port on May 20, 2021.[Omondi Onyango, Standard]

I was in Lamu last week for the official opening of the port; a proud moment for Kenya. I left Lamu with a sense of déjà vu.

In 1993 I visited the Port of Salalah in Oman. The port was dead and there was not a single ship in any of the newly constructed berths.