×
App Icon
The Standard e-Paper
Smart Minds Choose Us
★★★★ - on Play Store
Download App

The four quadrants: From photo-ops to realities of Dangote oil refinery project

President William Ruto and Aliko Dangote during the groundbreaking of the Dangote East Africa Petroleum Refinery in Lamu . [PCS]

The cameras are gone, the handshakes are done and the visitors have departed. And now that the dust has settled, it is time to transition from the euphoria of a State launch to the unforgiving brass tacks of real-world execution. We have imbibed the soaring rhetoric of our overdue economic emancipation, and the heavy-duty excavators we goggled at are ready to be deployed.  Or maybe not, given we have a court challenge that paused the commencement of real work.

Premium Article

Get Full Access for Ksh299/Week.

Bold Reporting Takes Time, Courage and Investment. Stand With Us.
Continue Reading  →
What you get
  • Unlimited access to all premium content
  • Ad-free browsing experience
  • Mobile-optimised reading
  • Weekly newsletters & digests
Pay via
M - PESA
VISA
Airtel Money
Secure Payments Kenya's most trusted newsroom since 1902