{"id":313,"date":"2026-09-30T17:53:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T17:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/?p=313"},"modified":"2026-09-30T17:53:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T17:53:19","slug":"court-pauses-16-million-dangote-refinery-in-lamu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"COURT PAUSES 16 MILLION DANGOTE REFINERY IN LAMU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BY.PHILES ISABOKE <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Malindi Environment and Land Court has ordered construction to be paused on Aliko Dangote&#8217;s $16B oil refinery in Lamu. Judge Jane Onyango ordered status quo be maintained on land in Hindi\/Manda Magogoni area until Oct 14 after 133 residents filed a petition saying it is their ancestral land with no resettlement plan and no environmental impact assessment. 07ba<br><br>Dangote Group says groundbreaking ceremony on Sept 30 will still go on, but site activities may be affected. Refinery is 700,000-barrels-per-day and aims to cut East Africa&#8217;s reliance on imported fuel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG-20260930-WA6695-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG-20260930-WA6695-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG-20260930-WA6695-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG-20260930-WA6695-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG-20260930-WA6695-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG-20260930-WA6695.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY.PHILES ISABOKE A Malindi Environment and Land Court has ordered construction to be paused on Aliko Dangote&#8217;s $16B oil refinery in Lamu. Judge Jane Onyango ordered status quo be maintained on land in Hindi\/Manda Magogoni area until Oct 14 after 133 residents filed a petition saying it is their ancestral land with no resettlement plan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}