Senate orders joint action over decade-long Thange oil spill crisis

A section of excavation area in Thange village, Kibwezi, Makueni County where there was an oil spill.[File, Standard]

The Senate has ordered the Kenya Pipeline Company, National Environment Management Authority and Makueni County Government to work jointly to resolve the humanitarian crisis occasioned by oil spillage into River Thange in June 2015.

Senate Energy Committee Chairman Oburu Odinga said that it was a matter of great concern that the residents of Thange Ward in Kibwezi East Constituency have continued to suffer the consequences of the oil spill more than 10 years later without tangible solution.