Security forces aiding charcoal trade - Report
Monday April 19 2021
Police intercept an elderly woman burning charcoal in Kiura Forest Reserve in Kayunga District in 2019. PHOTO/RACHEL MABALA
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A new research report has pinned security forces for aiding illicit charcoal trade in the East African region.
In Uganda, the report points accusing fingers at the army, police and environmental protection police unit for aiding loggers and charcoal burners engaged in illicit charcoal business.
It also identifies weak laws and poor implementations, corruption by enforcement agencies and other anomalies in regulating commercial charcoal trade.
“The system generates corruption and criminality, at times even violence. These effects are largely the result of the failure to effectively implement existing regulations, sustainably manage forest resources and deploy alternative energy solutions,” the report that was released by Global Witness on Friday indicates.
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Macharia Kamau |
April 6th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Had everything gone according to plan, Kenya would be preparing to start exporting its first consignment of commercially produced oil by the end of this year.
However, this has since changed and the optimism with which 2021 was labelled as the possible date for Kenya’s first oil payday has been moved to 2022, then 2023 and now 2024.
As recently as 2018, British exploration firm Tullow Oil had targeted a “Final Investment Decision (FID) for 2019 and First Oil for 2021/22.”
But the company has gone mute on when it expects to start commercial exportation of Kenyan oil, at least going by its just-published annual report.
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