Insecurities buda. Hawa watu suffer from an extreme case of inferiority complex that's what drives the drivel they spew around here
Check this out. That uninformed fella bragging about Tanzania is the transportation hub of East Africa. That's nice and good. They have had a rail line with yet Kenya trades more with Zambia than Tanzania, in other words a hub for services and goods originating from Kenya. He just wants that title but not concerned to ask himself a hub for who or what. classic example of an individual that thinks small. Good luck on his so called "East Africa transportation hub" tittle.
I would laugh at that guy but he seriously needs help and that's not funny. They building pipeline with Uganda but no COMPREHENSIVE PLAN for a regional refinery.
It's not about building the infrastructure but how you use it. We East Africans are very shit in that regard.
If Kenya builds a refinery and Uganda doesn't then east Africa will be importing refined petroleum and other by-products and services and that is not good news to anyone even Kenyans(crippling inflation will follow). if Kenya and Uganda build separate and competing refineries that not good news either.
But if Kenya and Uganda build a refinery in Tanzania and Tanzania is vested with duties of selling/supplying the products to east Africans as a "one country" then we can ensure that our region will have a consistent supply and protected from external oil fluctuations. East Africans and their businesses will have an advantage over other regions. That is what magufuli/Kenyatta/museveni should have lobbied for but they missed that opportunity.
If East Africa can get this oil this right then our region would EASILY rival southern and North Africa regions but we are busy fighting and mostrusting each over silly shit. Tumelaaniwa.
No strategic thinking from our leaders, none Nada zilch.