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Battle for resources: How Kenya could be digging itself into the 'oil curse'

There’s a simmering wrangle between the State and Turkana County Government whose tell-tale signs began in March when President Kenyatta publicly clashed with Governor Josephat Nanok

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The decision by the Government to cancel for the second time the Early Oil Pilot Scheme (EOPS) on Thursday has left in its wake questions on whether Kenya’s discovery of crude is turning out to be the curse of black gold.

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