How Rift Valley Railways lost out on Sh4m-a-day oil deal

RVR was informed it had been eliminated from the deal that would have earned it more than Sh4 million every day.PHOTO: COURTESY

Inside Rift Valley Railways’ downtown head offices, one man is still angry about being knocked out of a lucrative oil deal.

Isaiah Okoth, the man appointed chief executive of RVR in February, believes his company was used for months to come up with a plan to evacuate crude oil from Turkana’s Lokichar area to Mombasa, only to be later dumped.