{"id":50095,"date":"2026-11-05T15:22:39","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T13:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=50095"},"modified":"2026-11-05T15:22:39","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T13:22:39","slug":"kenyan-tribunal-dismisses-challenge-to-dangotes-planned-refinery","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/kenyan-tribunal-dismisses-challenge-to-dangotes-planned-refinery\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan tribunal dismisses challenge to Dangote&#8217;s planned refinery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Kenyan tribunal has dismissed a consumer rights organisation&#8217;s challenge to Nigeria billionaire Aliko Dangote&#8217;s planned crude oil refinery in the \u200ceast African country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The case filed by the Consumers Federation of Kenya (COFEK) was one of several legal hurdles to the 700 000-barrel-per-day (bpd) refinery being developed in Lamu port on Kenya&#8217;s Indian ocean coast.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The petitioner failed \u2060to prove that the refinery was a public private partnership (PPP) project and there was no legal basis for mandating disclosure of its documents, the ruling dated October 30 and seen by Reuters this Thursday showed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the petition, COFEK had asked Kenya&#8217;s Public Private Partnerships Petition Committee tribunal to set aside and reconsider \u200cany \u2060non-compliant approvals granted to the refinery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The rights organisation also wanted the tribunal to order disclosure of details about the government&#8217;s plan to take a stake in the refinery, including \u2060the acquisition vehicle, share class and payment terms and evidence that there was public participation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dangote is looking to replicate \u2060his group&#8217;s 700,000 bpd refinery in Nigeria. He has offered regional governments a combined 30% stake in \u2060the Lamu refinery, which is scheduled to be completed in 2030.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":32664,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-50095","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Kenyan tribunal has dismissed a consumer rights organisation's challenge to Nigeria billionaire Aliko Dangote's planned crude oil refinery","published_date":"2026-11-05 15:21:00","news_description":"Kenyan tribunal has dismissed a consumer rights organisation's challenge to Nigeria billionaire Aliko Dangote's planned crude oil refinery","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50099,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50095\/revisions\/50099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=50095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}