Weak legal policy may lower country’s projected oil gain

When National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale applied sudden brakes on a planned debate on the Petroleum Exploration, Development and Production Bill over claims that several other clauses had been added to it, another slippery phase of Kenya’s journey to oil riches reared its head: legislation. 

A persistent barrier into any meaningful use of natural resources, legislative loopholes have time and again stood between countries and their mineral wealth.