Lapsset was a 1975 project,it’s only south Sudan became independent,oil was discovered.
Some of you need to be slapped, @Ndindu :
Lapsset was a 1975 idea,to open up Nothern Kenya by creating a corridor, similar to mombasa-nairobi-kisumu-malaba.
Then South Sudan became a country, someone noticed it can serve southern Ethiopia too,also,we can use this project to link east coast to west coast of Africa(Suez alternative?),thus the name Lapsset.
The problems it is facing because of Uhuru leadership can be cured by changing leadership.
Ethiopia is secondary,nothern Kenya is primary and first priority.
Recently Uhuru visited DRC,a huge country.Agreements were signed and of interest was eastern DRC.since tz has taken advantage of the south eastern portion,we are going to use Uganda but majorly the south Sudan DRC border area hence the new consulates.
If GoK collects say 100bob from Mombasa port,but since Lamu port operates and some cargo goes there,revenues from Mombasa then amount to 60 bob,but from Lamu 40 bob,how is that a lose?
Transhipment means it will serve Seychelles (we have a maritime agreement), Mayotte,Comoros etc.The port is not aiming to take 100% traffic but a reasonable %,so Berbera,Kismayo,tz ports are competitors but not threats.
It doesn’t matter if the route Lapsset takes is just bushland,after all,it’s for that reason the project was started.
If since 1975 it is still a worthy idea,in the long term it will prove pessimists wrong
sioni ubaya Kenya is growing and we are opening the northern frontier . so argument zenyu za ati ku develop all kenya ni mbaya does not add up , eventually as we grow Lamu will be a great port, regimes will change in Uganda and Ethiopia which will work with us. hizo deal za Tanzania with Uganda and others died with Magufuli, Museveni will be no more in the next few years and we will convince the new leader kenya is always the better option
Lapsset is just the game changer that Kenya hasalways needed.
The only way Kenya will have any meaningful trade with Ethiopia is via a rail link. LAPSSET will be competing with the Berbera?? port in somaliland as well as the Djibouti port. Am sure in the game of efficiency Kenya will easily win over many clients in Ethiopia (assuming a free and fair business environment in Ethiopia)
Next is South Sudan. The only feasible transport corridor that South Sudan can use is the LAPSSET corridor.
This is also the best route to access Northern Uganda and northern DR Congo.
A well managed LAPSSET corridor will naturally attract business from North Ug, Congo DR, South Sudan and Ethiopia. Locally the whole of northern Kenya, Upper Nyeri county, meru county, Isiolo county and all those northern counties will be major users of the LAPSSET corridor.
Eggzatly. At the end of the day the most efficient and cost effective means to do business always triumphs. A president in Uganda and Ethiopia who really wants to improve business with Kenya as well as chose an efficient route for goods into/out of the country will prefer to pass via Kenya.
All Kenya needs is to develop a highly efficient transport system. Kitu najua is that Uhurus regime has really tried to bring efficiency especially at the ports and this is a big positive.
Konyagi’s projects have been grossly exaggerated financially.The 327B used to build mbs-nrb sgr should have built the entire thing from mbs to malaba or atlst to kisumu.such projects whether in the short term or long term will add no value to this economy.He has only proved to be greedy beyond redeemable.Hata hio lappset he should not touch it