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Uganda’s refinery plans dwarf Kenyan ambitions

By JEVANS NYABIAGE and MACHARIA KAMAU

When then Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta inaugurated the £6 million East African Oil Refinery at Changamwe on February 21, 1964, the mood in Kenya was hopeful. It symbolised the beginning of a new era of industrialisation.

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