Anyone with any details on how land can be bought along the planned highway? Are there any agents involved in this or would one have to deal with individual owners?

@Hunder..That is the best way, but often you will have the agents link you with land owners.

Have you been to Lamu lately? I wanted to know status of the Port construction and KETRACO. What is the price per acre for land in Muhamarani?

@hunder,

I think jubilee has done well with respect to LAPSSET. The regional meetings have basically been looking at ways of cementing the project. I am sure the prezzo trip to China was meant to source financing for lapsset. We are at execution stage, which is more difficult than planning. The fact that electricity from the grid is about to be connected shows how serious the project is.

Things are elephant;-


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Things might not be that elephant. Construction of the three berths should commence in early January 2014. This aspect of the contract has already been awarded to the Chinese company. Transmission work by the ketraco, going by what is on the ground, is impressive.

In my opinion, discovery of the oil in Turkana area is a deal breaker in as far as the pipeline is concerned. The Ethiopian link (railway) is a component that people hardly mention, yet this is one of the most important given Ethiopia's huge size of the economy and the fact that it is landlocked.

With or without the SS pipeline, Lapsset is still attractive. Financing the project might be a challenge though in the interim.

Uhuru is not heading to Qatar, Kuwait is not Qatar so stop cheating Kenyans, and its not the queens bash but the commonwealth meeting which the queen is also not attending.