Residents still await Sh12b cement factory, eight years on

The investors from India were to put up a factory complete with staff houses, schools, a medical and staff training centre. [Photo: Courtesy]

When former Prime Minister Raila Odinga launched construction of a cement factory in the pastoral West Pokot County, locals knew they had got a new lease of life.

The project to be put up by investors from India, would also open up the region that had lagged behind in development following years of marginalisation.