Natural gas is not good for cooking alone, you can do wide range of thing including driving cars and producing other product at form of energy used.
The issues of gas pipeline between Kenya and Tanzania first surface in 2011 and everything was going well until your current president came up with ingenious idea of locking Tanzania out of northern corridor development projects. Including oil pipeline, and East Africa railways interconnection. Deliberately Kenya abandoned the gas pipeline project after losing Uganda pipeline, and to be honest it isn't our problem, Zambia Uganda are already on our doorstep and life moves on.
Kenya did not deliberately abandon the gas pipeline, it is Tz that initially said that it was not interested in developing it for neighbors at the time, that you wanted to concentrate on local supply before exporting it in bulk to neighbors.
The gas pipeline proposal failed long before we lost the oil pipeline deal with Uganda.
Truth be said, we did ourselves a favour and we also did Tz a favour by the so called "Locking out " Tanzania.. But technically speaking, we did not lock out Tz, we only formed a CoW where countries that wanted to implement EAC protocols could do so much freely without dragging, Tz has always been welcomed to join, but never did. This is because Tz has always been suspicious of Kenya and was thus always holding back. We would take years negotiating for something, then we all finally agree then when its time to sign the agreement, Tz parliament or public or presidency hesitates to sign and starts dragging back to the table..... Lets face it Tz will never sign the EA passport, Tourist Visa and a whole lot of other things that EAC is supposed to sign, infact you have already started going back on the little things that you had already signed, I here you have now banned importation of carrots! from kenya!, like seriously carrots!!!... a
.. lets stop the bullsh!t and just call a spade a spade.. as long as Kenya is also a signatory Tz will always drag its feet to agree to anything..
And where did Kenya abandon the EA railway interconnection, A connection to TZ will be a boost to Kenyas SGR. Infact, it was president Uhuru that suggested to KR last year to come up with plans to build a dry port in Voi. Who do you think its meant for? One thing you should know by now is that Kenya never holds grudges when it comes to business, as long as it brings profits we would go into business with anyone. If we were so bitter about the pipeline why would we have finished the Voi-Holili highway construction? Would we have agreed to take AfDB loan for the yet to be constructed $750m Malindi Bagamoro highway? Would so many Kenyan companies be invested in Tz with combined investment of over $1B, some of these companies are even partly government owned e.g KCB bank, KQ
