Cost of Turkana oil pipeline now drops by Sh100 billion

Kenya has nearly halved the budget for planned construction of an 865 km pipeline that will move crude oil from Turkana oilfields in the north to Lamu seaport, saving the economy millions of dollars.

Petroleum principal secretary Andrew Kamau said the cost of building the pipeline has dropped to an estimated Sh110 billion from the Sh210 billion  quoted earlier.