Reassess economics of Lamu coal plant

Lamu residents during demonstrations against the Sh200 billion coal plant. FILE PHOTO | NMG

For infrastructure projects with momentous environmental consequences, the economics of its purpose first has to be right then mitigation cost can be factored in when conducting a due diligence.

Unfortunately for the Lamu coal plant, the economics behind it is brazenly atrocious and in fact poses a high risk to the sustainability of Kenya’s power sector.

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