A civil society group has challenged the government to make public all the contracts it has signed with multinationals for exploratory activities for scrutiny. The contracts being sought include those in oil, gas and mineral exploration under the ministries of Energy and Petroleum as well as Mining. The Kenya Civil Society Platform on Oil and Gas yesterday said in the oil and gas sector alone, only 10 of the 44 contracts are publicly available. KCSPOG also wants the Early Oil Pilot Scheme signed between the Energy and Petroleum ministry, Tullow Oil, Africa Oil and Maersk Oil, on March 14 made public. The lobby group however yesterday maintained that the project is not economical viable.

Source: The Star March 21, 2017 22:18 UTC