LOKICHAR, Kenya — When Kenyan President Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta announced in August 2019 that the country had joined the oil-exporting nations, Abraham Lokopir, a businessman in Lokichar, Turkana County, saw an opportunity. “I took a bank loan and built a hotel and lodgings thinking we were headed into oil production big time,” he told Zenger News. “I was targeting the workers […]

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