{"id":218436,"date":"2025-12-29T11:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T09:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-sifuna-labels-turkana-oil-plan-rutos-biggest-scandal-citing-masked-ownership\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T11:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T09:02:12","slug":"kenya-sifuna-labels-turkana-oil-plan-rutos-biggest-scandal-citing-masked-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-sifuna-labels-turkana-oil-plan-rutos-biggest-scandal-citing-masked-ownership\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Sifuna Labels Turkana Oil Plan &#8216;Ruto&#8217;s Biggest Scandal&#8217; Citing Masked Ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna has launched a scathing critique of the proposed Field Development Plan (FDP) for the Turkana oil project, warning that Kenyans risk losing meaningful benefits from the country&#8217;s long-awaited petroleum resources.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Reacting to Parliament&#8217;s invitation for public memoranda on the South Lokichar oil FDP, Sifuna alleged that the deal presented to lawmakers is riddled with irregularities, opaque ownership changes, and contract variations that overwhelmingly favour&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512290085.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna has launched a scathing critique of the proposed Field Development Plan (FDP) for the Turkana oil project, warning that Kenyans risk losing meaningful benefits from the country&#8217;s long-awaited petroleum resources. Reacting to Parliament&#8217;s invitation for public memoranda on the South Lokichar oil FDP, Sifuna alleged that the deal presented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":218437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,8645,6339,4688,430,21939,53263,257,4221,12866,7586,12640,7454,47245,254,1793],"class_list":["post-218436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-biggest","tag-citing","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-labels","tag-masked","tag-news","tag-oil","tag-ownership","tag-plan","tag-rutos","tag-scandal","tag-sifuna","tag-south-africa-today","tag-turkana"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}