<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">Dear listers</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">This issue of Wayleaves is becoming a serious impediment to rolling out critical infrastructure in our country. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">Could using the Multi-Stakeholder Engagement Strategy work towards ensuring that communities and county governments become strong partners in these projects? </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">Why are communities becoming an impediment to the very projects that may well uplift their lives? </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">What are we missing?</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">When Electricity Transmission Company (Ketraco) decided to sue some 561 Kajiado landowners last week, its executives were walking down a familiar path.</span><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em"><font face="georgia, serif">Investors and government agencies working on multi-million shilling energy projects have found themselves in the eye of a wayleave storm.</font></p></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Residents have generally rejected compensation offers and at times resorted to civil protests that have grounded work at the sites.</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Read on:-</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Wayleave-storm-threatens-clean-energy-prospects/-/539546/3096014/-/dfukifz/-/index.html">http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Wayleave-storm-threatens-clean-energy-prospects/-/539546/3096014/-/dfukifz/-/index.html</a><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="georgia, serif" size="2"><br></font></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Ali
Hussein</font></b><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Principal</font></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="georgia, serif" size="2"><b>Hussein & Associates</b></font></p><font size="2">

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