Oil proceeds will help to catalyse inclusive development in Turkana

Truck ferrying the first crude oil consignment from Lokichar, Turkana, arrives at the Changamwe KPRL storage facility in Mombasa, on June 7, 2018. [File, Standard]

For decades, the vast natural wealth of Turkana County has coexisted with deep poverty and exclusion. Long viewed through the lens of hardship and remoteness, the region has often featured in national conversations as a symbol of developmental failure.

Devolution has begun to shift that narrative by placing decision-making closer to communities and opening new pathways for inclusive growth to communities that waited too long on the margins.