Mombasa. A company founded by Tanzanian billionaire and industrialist Rostam Aziz, Taifa Gas Investments SEZ Ltd, has secured a major reprieve after Kenya’s Environment and Land Court (ELC) struck out a petition challenging the construction of its $130 million Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) terminal at the Dongo Kundu Special Economic Zone in Likoni, Mombasa.
The court dismissed a petition filed by two Likoni residents who opposed the construction of the 30,000-tonne LPG facility, after upholding Taifa Gas’s preliminary objection. Justice Stephen Kibunja ruled that the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Licence No. NEMA/EIA/PSL/21998 was lawfully issued and that all regulatory approvals complied with the Environmental Management and Coordination Act (EMCA), 1999, as well as Kenya’s constitutional safeguards.
