Kenya-Tullow: Scapegoats and broken promises in Lokichar

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By Kang-Chun Cheng

Posted on April 1, 2024 09:58

Published on madaraka.online on 2nd April 2024

A hole in Riamram Kori village, a sublocation of Lokichar (population 500) villagers have desperately dug to reach groundwater. The Kakali River that once flowed through here dried up seven years ago. (Photo: Kang-Chun Cheng)
A hole in Riamram Kori village, a sublocation of Lokichar (population 500) villagers have desperately dug to reach groundwater. The Kakali River that once flowed through here dried up seven years ago. (Photo: Kang-Chun Cheng)
When Tullow Oil arrived in Lokichar in north-east Kenya, hopes were high that livelihoods in this poor, arid region could be transformed forever. Instead, it became a litany of blame and recrimination, with virtually no lasting benefit to the community.

For more than a decade, residents of Lokichar and its environs, a small town in the heart of the Great Rift Valley’s Turkana basin, have been waiting for their lives to change. In March 2012, Tullow, an Anglo-Irish oil and gas explorer, discovered what it said would be one billion barrels of crude oil in the South Lokichar Basin…

READ MORE: https://www.theafricareport.com/342123/kenya-tullow-scapegoats-and-broken-promises-in-lokichar/

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