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Uhuru Kenyatta offers Uganda land for port in Naivasha

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni addressing a press conference at State House Mombasa as President Uhuru Kenyatta looks on March 27, 2019. PHOTO | LABAN WALLOGA | NMG

By  Allan Olingo

Nation Media Group

Kenya will offer Uganda land to build a dry port for its cargo in Naivasha as part of the joint standard gauge railway (SGR) project.

This was agreed on Wednesday evening when President Uhuru Kenyatta hosted his visiting Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni to a state dinner in Mombasa.

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