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"content": "storage and loading facilities for transportation, storage and distribution of petroleum products to facilitate the realisation of this particular objective. The company’s mandates are:- (i) to build a pipeline for the conveyance of petroleum or petroleum products from Nairobi to Mombasa. Right now, the mandate has been expanded to other parts of East Africa. (ii) to own, manage or operate such pipelines and any other pipelines and associated auxiliary facilities. (iii) to market, process, treat and deal in petroleum products and other products and goods, and also to provide transport, distributive facilities, outlets and services to connected areas. This particular Line 1, the Mombasa-Nairobi Petroleum Pipeline, was first commissioned in 1978. It covers a distance of 450 kilometres. The lifespan of this particular line was 25 years. Therefore, from 1978, the lifespan ended in 2003. The idea of modernising this has been on paper for quite some time, but it did not happen. The lifespan ended 12 years ago and since then, things have not been very good. Once a facility goes beyond the lifespan, you can appreciate the risk and other challenges that are associated with that. It is because of this, that the modernisation of this particular facility is one of the flagship projects under the Vision 2030. Sadly, Vision 2030 is a beautiful document clearly spelled out to realise the proper industrialisation and economic growth of this country, but that has been reduced just to any other paper. This country has a very rich history of producing beautiful documents, coming up with brilliant ideas and shelving them when they are supposed to be implemented. If truly we would have implemented our development, socio-economic and political plans along the lines of Vision 2030, this country would have industrialized, and we would have seen a different Kenya. Simply because those who are entrusted with this sleep on the job, the objectives of the Vision 2030 as spelled out are implemented in piecemeal. This might not help us realise what we intended to achieve within a decade. It is because of this, that this particular facility is coming late by 12 years after the lifespan of the particular project. It took a bit of time to realize this for some reasons; some were purely business factors, some were purely administrative, managerial and some were as a result of institutional weaknesses. But finally, it has taken off and we hope and pray that it is going to be implemented to its logical conclusion. The pipeline became a health hazard, and those of you who live along the belt from Mombasa all the way to Eldoret and Kitale and other parts know the kind of hazard it is. One reason behind it was what happened in that famous Mukuru-Sinai fire tragedy, where so many Kenyans lost their lives by being burnt alive. We have not had the privilege of going through the report of that fire incident, but from what we have gathered, this misfortune was attributed to one of the hazards associated with the usage of a facility whose lifespan expired 12 years ago. The KPC is one of the critical institutions that are mandated to oversee this key sector. Hon. Deputy Speaker, right now we are geared up and God loves this country. There are serious discoveries in Wajir, Turkana, Garissa, Mandera and Lamu. The way things are going now, there is going to be a very serious demographic change; areas that have hitherto been considered as arid and inhabitable might become the heaven of the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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