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The price of eggs went up from 10 to 20 KES within few years. This just goes to show you how inflation is eating up worker's salaries.

The Deliberate De-Industrialization of Africa: Why Kenya’s KPRL Was Shut Down While Older Refineries Across the Continent Keep Running Africa produces roughly 10 million barrels of crude oil per day, yet the continent still imports the majority of its refined petroleum products. This is not an accident of geography or technology - it is the result of deliberate policy choices that have systematically crippled local refining capacity across much of the continent. The recently circulated refinery map makes this reality painfully clear. While countries like Nigeria (Dangote: 650,000 bbl/d), Algeria (Skikda: 356,500 bbl/d), Libya, South Africa, Ghana, Sudan, Angola, and Côte d’Ivoire continue to operate refineries - many of them built decades ago using the very “old” technology that Kenyan officials claimed made KPRL unviable - Kenya’s only refinery in Mombasa (KPRL, commissioned in 1963 with 70,000 bbl/d capacity and an extremely low Nelson Complexity Index of 2.64) was deliberately sabotaged and shut down by Uhuru Kenyatta in September 2013. The official excuse at the time was that the facility was “too old” and modernization would cost too much (around KSh 100 billion). That claim by Uhuru was always fraudulent. Many of the refineries still operating successfully across Africa today are of similar vintage or even older, using comparable technology. The difference is political will - or the deliberate lack of it. The Real Agenda Behind KPRL’s Closure The shutdown of KPRL was never about efficiency or cost. It was a calculated act of de-industrialization: • It forced Kenya to stop importing cheap crude (including from Iran) and instead import finished, more expensive petroleum products from the Gulf. • It destroyed local value addition, jobs, and technical capacity in Mombasa. • It handed control of Kenya’s fuel supply to foreign cartels and briefcase companies aligned with UAE and Saudi interests through the corrupt G-to-G deals. • It turned Kenya into a captive market, dependent on thugs who serve Gulf autocracies and, ultimately, cannibalistic western financial and geopolitical interests. This is the classic curse of African nations that mortgage their sovereignty to foreign brokers and “strategic partners.” Instead of building refining capacity to process their own or imported crude, they are pressured - through debt, “investment” deals, and political capture - to remain raw material exporters and finished product importers. The result is perpetual dependency, lost revenue, higher costs for citizens, and weakened national security. The closure of KPRL was not an economic decision. 
It was a geopolitical decision to keep Kenya de-industrialized, dependent, and profitable only for a small cartel of local elites and their foreign sponsors. Every litre of fuel we now import at a premium is a direct result of that betrayal. Every fuel shortage, every price spike, and every economic ripple effect traces back to the deliberate dismantling of our refining capacity by Uhuru Kenyatta. Africa’s story does not have to be one of exporting raw crude and importing finished products at a loss. But as long as western-backed politicians continue to sell national sovereignty to Gulf autocracies and white middlemen, the cycle of dependency and poverty will continue. The lesson from the refinery map is clear:
Those who control refining control value.
Those who surrender it remain perpetual consumers in someone else’s game. Kenya’s KPRL was not closed because it was old. It was closed because Uhuru Kenyatta wanted it gone. And the Kenyan people continue to pay the price every single day at the pump.

On TikTok at 6am reading the story of Harriet Akinyi from Nakuru, Tule Kienyeji restaurant. Life is very mysterious.

ACCIDENT ALERT 🚨 Several people are feared dead and others injured after the bus they were travelling in rammed into the rear of a truck early today at Fort Tenan along Londiani - Muhoroni road.