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How Kenya can avoid oil curse

This time next year, Kenya will have earned the first few shillings from exporting crude oil extracted from the oil fields in Turkana, where there an estimated 600 million barrels of oil.

Nothing speaks of the urgent need to exploit this oil, either for export or domestic consumption, than the choice to truck the nearly 3,000 barrels because the country cannot wait for a pipeline to deliver it to the refinery in Mombasa.

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