Writes Leo Odera Omolo.
Encouraged and buoyed by its recent major discovery of massive oil deposits in the remotest Northern Kenyan district of Turkana, Tullow, the British oil exploration firm has now focused its attention to the Western Kenya region of Nyakach within the County of Kisumu in Nyanza Province.
Tullow is now set to begin a round of oil prospecting in Nyakach district following a visit to the region by its technicians.
The company team of experts were welcome to the area last week by he Nyakach District Commissioner Chaunga Mwachunga who was accompanied by the area MP Polyns Ochieng’ Daima.
In a joint address to members of the Hindu Council of Kenya said officials from Tullow have secured a certificate of exploration from the Ministry of Energy.
The MP said the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry o Energy had informed him of the potential for oil in the area and that he will take up the matter to Parliament to expedite the exploration.
He said the prospecting is part of the government efforts to explore mineral in the region, with Nyakach believed to have oil deposits.
Speaking in his office at Pap Onditi, the DC confirmed that he had received technical officers from Tullow who toured the area early last week with a promise to start putting up a drilling machine in the area b middle of June.
The government, He said, had already earmarked some regions for exploration of certain useful minerals and oil.”This region was marked and Tullow were awarded the certificate to carry out exploration activities for oil.
Tullow Oil general manager for Kenya Martin Mbogo confirmed that an advance team had visited the area to conduct a block assessment.”What we are doing is surveying the area and checking issues of infrastructure, security and community issues. We expect too start the prospecting around August,”Mbogo said.
The discovery of oil deposits in Nyakach could open up the area for development and raise the standard of living. The oil wells be the first to be sunk in the region, which is very close to Lake Victoria eastern shorelines.
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Should oil be found in Nyakach, poor Nyakach who own land will definitely be forcefully be removed from their land the same way those people of Mau Forest were removed!!! Luo elected elites are on the take and they sacrifising the poor Luos.
They claim the land belongs to the government! Who the heck is the “government” in Kenya other than the ruling tribe and their elite foot soldiers in Luoland who feel they have power over every Luo living in Nyanza?
The most ignorant tribe in Kenya, despite their academic exellence, are the Luos!
They are being taken cleaners while they are cheering!
It would be a miracle and God’s blessing to our comminity
John Opiyo,
I would like you to refer to the history of the mining of Natural resources in Africa, particularly, in Congo, Angola, Sierra Leone, Niger Delta in Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Dafur and Southern Sudan (to name only a few). These areas have been permanently inflicted conflicts accompanied by death, destruction and displacement of not only of thousands and thousands of the poor land owners, but also pollution of water in surrounding lakes and rivers, resulting in the poisoning both people and resources in the surrounding areas!
If you and other young people in Luoland think these are blessings to people, you must be delusional!
(a) Lake Victoria is going to be polluted beyond recognition (b) Fish, which has been the livelihood of families along the lake, will die because these foreign companies are interested in profits only and always ignore safety, particularly, when it comes to anything to do with a black man (c) the people who may benefit from this loot, if it turns out to be true, will be those Kenyans in power who are collaborating with the company in this project and their immediate families, relatives, and friends!
Mr. John Opiyo, if you are one of the inner circles in this project, you may start counting your blessing. Otherwise, I would like you to remember the points I have just emphasized above.
By the way, Charles Taylor has just received 50 years at The Hague for carrying out the gruesome killing and maimng of poor people in Sierra Leone. He and his killers were interested in Diamond Mines over there and were willing to chop people’s hands, legs, ears and mass rape of women to accomplish that. He will spend his “jail time” in some comfortable safe house in Britain as being reported!
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I join the support of Akech my sister in saying this could bring problems to the poor land owners in Nyakach. However I think it is high time that people come together and make it a blessing instead of a curse to our people. first the so called Kenyan government should stand up and fight for a good compensation and resettlement plan for the land owners. They oil companies must bring good roads, hospitals and schools to this people, and they have to sign an agreement to take care of our environment as one of terms of agreement. The days when the white man colonized Africa are over and what we are seeing in the countries such as Congo, Niger Delta, Darfur, Angola and Sierra Leone were the evil set by colonialists. Then they are fueled it by their stooges they put as head of these governments, who are actually not ruling in the interest of the African poor, but sitting there to make their foreign masters rich by looting, while they are being used as tools of killing rape and agony to their own people. And this is what we as Kenyans should now not allow to happen. Let us stand together as a people and talk the government to its right thinking and we should always be the democratic Kenya that we are trying to portray. The people of the whole Nyanza if not Kenya should keep the fight, and in this we have to test our so called leaders and see who will be willing to save the poor communities from devastation. We want no more Darfur in Kenya. Who said nothing good can come out of Africa apart from the lies of the white masters corrupting the cheap minority. But if God has blessed us with oil let us make good use of it. Can the companies stand and bring development or else they leave that oil on that ground after all it has been lying there from God’s creation. Join hands and save our land make prayers to God to bring the oil with all the blessing after all nothing is too hard for our God. And lets pray that Jesus stand up for these poor people that he is willing to bless and not curse.
good day its a khown fact world wide .what are the commercial quantities of oil in lake victoria.eastern part of the rift valley is connected some how to lake victoria thats why its very deep.do you deny that there is petroleum for refining? we are tired of poverty.