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The Proverbial ‘Blemish-less Goat’ that is the Lamu Coal Mine Project

Save Lamu's Secretary General Walid Ahmed (middle) and a member Is'haq Abubakar Khatib (left) addresses the Media at their Lamu Island offices in lamu County on Friday, 25th May,2018. [File, Standard]

Many an African tale begin with an African proverb and to subscribe to that cliché, so will this. There is a Bantu proverb that loosely translates to, ‘a goat that is gifted does not have its teeth inspected.

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