President Uhuru Kenyatta holds a meeting with energy sector drivers from the public sector at Harambee house. [Photo| @UKenyatta]President Uhuru Kenyatta held a meeting with energy sector drivers from the public sector on Friday as part of focusing on improved service delivery to bring better lives.During the meeting at Harambee House, Energy Cabinet Secretary Charles Keter said the new 20-inch 450-km oil pipeline from Mombasa to Nairobi was 97 per cent complete, and could be commissioned as early as Christmas.The pipeline is expected to ease traffic on the Mombasa-Nairobi road, as well as significantly improve supplies and stability in Nairobi and Kisumu and their environs.“This will have a great impact. It will ease congestion on Mombasa-Nairobi highway and ensure we have very stable petroleum cover,” Keter said.The CS added that plans to roll out low-cost liquid petroleum gas (LPG) were at a very advanced stage, and a target launch also of Christmas.Uhuru was also briefed on the work on infrastructure around the oil fields in Turkana, including road repairs and the fixing of the damaged Kainuk bridge.Keter’s team included Principal Secretaries Eng Joseph Njoroge (Energy) and Andrew Kamau (Petroleum), and the CEOs of transmission firm Ketraco, geothermal agency GDC, generator Kengen and distributor Kenya Power.

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