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Article

6 Jun 2012

Author:
Benson Wambugu, Business Daily [Kenya]

Four rights groups join suit opposing Sh1.6tr Lamu port [Kenya]

A judge has allowed four human rights organisations to join a petition seeking to block the building of the multi-billion shilling Lamu port...[The organizations are] Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Centre for International Environmental Law, and Katiba and Muhuri as parties to the petition by a group of Lamu residents opposing the project...The application will be argued on June 25. The group said the petition was to ensure the project does not infringe the people’s constitutional rights...Mohammed Ali Baadi, who is leading the group,...alleges that...a government delegation which visited the area affirmed that about 6,000 families could be displaced...They are seeking...to block...the proposed $20 billion (about Sh1.6 trillion) project on grounds that the government has not carried out a consultative environmental impact assessment “despite obvious dangers.”