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Kenya's mining sector faces litmus test on social welfare as investors get jittery

Base Titanium plant in Kwale County which has since ceased operations. [File, Standard]

A few days ago, Kwale County Deputy Governor Chirema Kombo walked out of a consultative meeting chaired by the Mining Cabinet Secretary Ali Hassan Joho to discuss the prospects of the Mrima Hills project.

The project located in the county has attracted several bidders, a majority of them international conglomerates eyeing deposits of niobium and other highly sought after brare earth minerals whose value is over Sh8.1 trillion.

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