after a cabinet aproves the issuance of a licence the respective ministries and department have to actually give the licence, so technically, no kenyan media lied, they said the cabinet of UG had given the go ahead and agreed the licence to tullow, but that cant be used as legal binding, there has to be a legal paper which is legal. and its usually signed later after cabinet approves.
besides that, there is hardly any motive for kenya to lie abt who was given licence in ug or not