Kenya yathibitisha rasmi kuiogopa Tanzania katika biashara. Yakataa kuidhinisha ujenzi wa kiwanda cha gesi cha Rostam

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Kenya has frozen plans by a Tanzanian billionaire to set up a gas plant and storage facilities at the Mombasa port, threatening a trade spat between the two neighbouring countries.

The Energy regulator has declined to clear the application by Taifa Gas, which is owned by tycoon Rostam Aziz, citing risks to the environment posed by the 30,000-ton gas handling facility.

The entry of the business magnate, who was ranked the first dollar billionaire in Tanzania by Forbes in 2013, promised a vicious battle for control of the Kenyan cooking gas market that remains under the tight leash of Mombasa-based tycoon, Mohamed Jaffer.

The entry of Taifa Gas into Kenya is part of a trade deal between the countries signed between Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and Tanzania’s Samia Suluhu last year.

The regulatory licence freeze risks reigniting the trade spat between Kenya and Tanzania that saw Dar es Salaam block Kenyan goods from accessing its market.

The billionaires’ fight pitting Mr Jaffer and Mr Aziz, 57, was expected to cut the cost of handling and evacuating cooking gas from the ships to the mainland, allowing dealers to transfer the cost relief to consumers.

Just like Mr Jaffer, Mr Aziz has invested in building political networks that saw him serve as MP and treasurer of the ruling party-- Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM).

Mr Aziz’s ambitions to establish a presence in Kenya’s retail cooking gas business looked set to trigger another market fight with oil dealers such as Vivo, Rubis and Total for control of the 2.87 million households (23.9 percent of Kenyan households) that use liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) for cooking.

“We did not clear their Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) because of certain technical deficiencies. The EIA had some technical deficiencies which we want them to address before we consider their application further,” the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (Epra) said in a response to Business Daily queries.

The regulator did not disclose the technicalities linked to Taifa Gas, which is the largest gas retailer in Tanzania and has more than 30 LPG handling plants.

Taifa Gas wants to build the 30,000-ton Kenya facility at the Special Economic Zone in Dongo Kundu, near the Port of Mombasa.

It will join Jaffer’s firm, Africa Gas and Oil Ltd (AGOL), in the short list of firms that operate gas handling and storage at major entry ports in Africa.

AGOL has a storage capacity of 25,000 tonnes of LPG following an upgrade last year of the facility initially built in 2013.

The plant was built to allow for bulk imports of cooking gas to lower unit costs through economies of scale and curb shortages, which had been made difficult by the smaller import terminal at Shimanzi.

It had a storage capacity of 10,000 tonnes and the 25,000 tonnes unit is ranked among the largest terminals in sub-Saharan Africa.

The import handling and storage unit has helped relieve demand pressures through reduction of stock-outs, effectively easing pressure on LPG prices.

Previously, the oil marketers imported cooking gas individually in small quantities due to inadequate gas discharge facilities.

This led to cooking gas shortages and expensive LPG due to high import premiums and demurrage, which are penalties marketers pay shipping companies when tankers fail to offload in the stipulated time period.

The Shimanzi terminal has a capacity of just 1,400 metric tonnes.

The tankers would queue for up to two months, leaving the marketers with a daily fee of $20,000 (Sh1.7 million).

Private companies have been angling to benefit from the growing use of cooking gas in Kenya in the absence of investments by the government via import and storage facilities.

This is the reason the wealthy Mr Aziz is seeking a piece of Kenya’s gas market.

Mr Aziz facilitated Vodacom South Africa’s entry into Tanzania, and previously owned an estimated 35 percent stake in Vodacom Tanzania.

In 2019, he concluded the sale of the last tranche of his Vodacom Tanzania shares in deals that saw him pockets billions of shillings.

Apart from his shareholding in Vodacom Tanzania, he built a fortune from stakes in contract mining firm Caspian Mining, extensive real estate in Tanzania and the Middle East and investments in Tanzanian media.

He has been vocal about hurdles placed on his bid to enter the Kenyan market.

“Tanzania and Kenya potentially can be much bigger than they are. Unfortunately, we’re bogged down by petty politics, protectionism, inward-looking and trivial issues that impede economic development,” Mr Aziz said at a conference in Nairobi last year.

He was Tanzania’s first dollar billionaire (worth over Sh120 billion) and is still one of the country’s leading businessmen and power brokers.

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MY TAKE: wale wakenya ambao kwa miaka mingi walikua wakijinasibu kwamba Kenya ni nchi isiyoogopa Upinzani wa kibiashara, kwamba watanzania wakifika Kenya hawasumbuliwi lakini wakenya huwa wanasumbuliwa Tanzania, wake waone ukweli na unafiki wa nchi Yao.

Mara nyingi wakenya wamekuwa wakijazana ujinga kwamba wao mara zote wapo sahihi katika maamuzi Yao, ila nchi zingine zote ndizo zenye matatizo, haziipendi Kenya, zinaionea wivu Kenya. Katika hili Tanzania haipaswi kufumbia macho, lazima tujibu kwa nguvu zote.

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Billionaire Rostam alitaka kujenga kiwanda cha gesi hapa Kenya ambayo ingepunguza bei ya gesi na mradi huo ulishapewa go ahead lakini naona sasa cartels wameanza kuingilia huu mradi. Sijui tatizo ni gani, mimi naona aachiwe ajenge tu.

Kiwanda hiki kitapunguza bei ya gesi hapa Kenya na Wakenya ndio watafaidika. Mradi wowote ambao utasaidia kupunguza gharama ya maisha naomba uhurusiwe uendelee. Isiwe kwamba kuna corrupt cartels hapa Kenya wanazuia ujenzi wake ili waendelee kuimport gesi kwa bei ya juu na hawataki competition.
 
Billionaire Rostam alitaka kujenga kiwanda cha gesi hapa Kenya ambayo ingepunguza bei ya gesi na mradi huo ulishapewa go ahead lakini naona sasa cartels wameanza kuingilia huu mradi. Sijui tatizo ni gani, mimi naona aachiwe ajenge tu. Kiwanda hiki kitapunguza bei ya gesi hapa Kenya na Wakenya ndio watafaidika. Mradi wowote ambao utasaidia kupunguza gharama ya maisha naomba uhurusiwe uendelee. Isiwe kwamba kuna corrupt cartels hapa Kenya wanazuia ujenzi wake ili waendelee kuimport gesi kwa bei ya juu na hawataki competition.


Kenya freezes Tanzanian tycoon's cooking gas plant​

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Kenya has frozen plans by a Tanzanian billionaire to set up a gas plant and storage facilities at the Mombasa port, threatening a trade spat between the two neighbouring countries.

The Energy regulator has declined to clear the application by Taifa Gas, which is owned by tycoon Rostam Aziz, citing risks to the environment posed by the 30,000-ton gas handling facility.

The entry of the business magnate, who was ranked the first dollar billionaire in Tanzania by Forbes in 2013, promised a vicious battle for control of the Kenyan cooking gas market that remains under the tight leash of Mombasa-based tycoon, Mohamed Jaffer.

The entry of Taifa Gas into Kenya is part of a trade deal between the countries signed between Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and Tanzania’s Samia Suluhu last year.

The regulatory licence freeze risks reigniting the trade spat between Kenya and Tanzania that saw Dar es Salaam block Kenyan goods from accessing its market.

The billionaires’ fight pitting Mr Jaffer and Mr Aziz, 57, was expected to cut the cost of handling and evacuating cooking gas from the ships to the mainland, allowing dealers to transfer the cost relief to consumers.

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Just like Mr Jaffer, Mr Aziz has invested in building political networks that saw him serve as MP and treasurer of the ruling party-- Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM).

Mr Aziz’s ambitions to establish a presence in Kenya’s retail cooking gas business looked set to trigger another market fight with oil dealers such as Vivo, Rubis and Total for control of the 2.87 million households (23.9 percent of Kenyan households) that use liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) for cooking.

“We did not clear their Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) because of certain technical deficiencies. The EIA had some technical deficiencies which we want them to address before we consider their application further,” the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (Epra) said in a response to Business Daily queries.

The regulator did not disclose the technicalities linked to Taifa Gas, which is the largest gas retailer in Tanzania and has more than 30 LPG handling plants.

Taifa Gas wants to build the 30,000-ton Kenya facility at the Special Economic Zone in Dongo Kundu, near the Port of Mombasa.

It will join Jaffer’s firm, Africa Gas and Oil Ltd (AGOL), in the short list of firms that operate gas handling and storage at major entry ports in Africa.

AGOL has a storage capacity of 25,000 tonnes of LPG following an upgrade last year of the facility initially built in 2013.

The plant was built to allow for bulk imports of cooking gas to lower unit costs through economies of scale and curb shortages, which had been made difficult by the smaller import terminal at Shimanzi.

It had a storage capacity of 10,000 tonnes and the 25,000 tonnes unit is ranked among the largest terminals in sub-Saharan Africa.
The import handling and storage unit has helped relieve demand pressures through reduction of stock-outs, effectively easing pressure on LPG prices.

Previously, the oil marketers imported cooking gas individually in small quantities due to inadequate gas discharge facilities.

This led to cooking gas shortages and expensive LPG due to high import premiums and demurrage, which are penalties marketers pay shipping companies when tankers fail to offload in the stipulated time period.

The Shimanzi terminal has a capacity of just 1,400 metric tonnes.

The tankers would queue for up to two months, leaving the marketers with a daily fee of $20,000 (Sh1.7 million).

Private companies have been angling to benefit from the growing use of cooking gas in Kenya in the absence of investments by the government via import and storage facilities.

This is the reason the wealthy Mr Aziz is seeking a piece of Kenya’s gas market.

Mr Aziz facilitated Vodacom South Africa’s entry into Tanzania, and previously owned an estimated 35 percent stake in Vodacom Tanzania.

In 2019, he concluded the sale of the last tranche of his Vodacom Tanzania shares in deals that saw him pockets billions of shillings.

Apart from his shareholding in Vodacom Tanzania, he built a fortune from stakes in contract mining firm Caspian Mining, extensive real estate in Tanzania and the Middle East and investments in Tanzanian media.

He has been vocal about hurdles placed on his bid to enter the Kenyan market.

“Tanzania and Kenya potentially can be much bigger than they are. Unfortunately, we’re bogged down by petty politics, protectionism, inward-looking and trivial issues that impede economic development,” Mr Aziz said at a conference in Nairobi last year.

He was Tanzania’s first dollar billionaire (worth over Sh120 billion) and is still one of the country’s leading businessmen and power brokers.

Kuanzia Leo nataka ujue kwamba Kenya ndio nchi yenye fujo za kibiashara katika ukanda huu kuliko nchi yoyote Ile, kwamba ule ujinga mliojazwa na vyombo vyenu vya habari kwamba wakenya huwa wanasumbuliwa wanapotaka kuja kufanya biashara Tanzania, ila watanzania wapo huru wanapokuja kufanya biashara Kenya ni tabia ya wakenya ya kutaka kujifanya wao siku zote wapo sahihi lakini wengine hawapo sahihi, na kwamba Kenya siku zote ni "victims".

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Mimi naona Kenya ingewacha huyu jamaa ajenge kiwanda hiki cha gesi kwa sababu kitapunguza bei ya gesi hapa Kenya. Tatizo ni kwamba kuna cartels ambao wanazuia kiwanda hiki kujengwa ili waendelee kuimport gesi kwa bei ya juu bila competition.
Hivi ndivyo Kenya ilivyo kwa miaka yote, hili sio kwamba ni tatizo jipya, Kenya kwa miaka yote mumekua mkizifanyia fujo nchi zote za ukanda huu zinapojaribu kuingia soko la Kenya, badala yake ninyi mnageuza kibao na kupiga kelele kwamba ninyi ndio mnaochezewa "foul", hiyo ndio sababu kubwa ya wakenya kumchukia Magufuli, kwasababu yeye alikua akijibu papo kwa papo bila ya kupoteza muda.

Uganda pia ni muathirika mkubwa wa kibiashara kutokana na tabia hii ya kipumbavu. Kenya Kamwe hamuwezi kuelewana na nchi yoyote Ile ukanda huu. Endapo mama Samia aliamua kujibu mapiga, mtaanza kupiga kelele za kwamba anaichukia Kenya, ninyi ni watu wa hovyo Sana.

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Kenya has frozen plans by a Tanzanian billionaire to set up a gas plant and storage facilities at the Mombasa port, threatening a trade spat between the two neighbouring countries.

The Energy regulator has declined to clear the application by Taifa Gas, which is owned by tycoon Rostam Aziz, citing risks to the environment posed by the 30,000-ton gas handling facility.

The entry of the business magnate, who was ranked the first dollar billionaire in Tanzania by Forbes in 2013, promised a vicious battle for control of the Kenyan cooking gas market that remains under the tight leash of Mombasa-based tycoon, Mohamed Jaffer.

The entry of Taifa Gas into Kenya is part of a trade deal between the countries signed between Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and Tanzania’s Samia Suluhu last year.

The regulatory licence freeze risks reigniting the trade spat between Kenya and Tanzania that saw Dar es Salaam block Kenyan goods from accessing its market.

The billionaires’ fight pitting Mr Jaffer and Mr Aziz, 57, was expected to cut the cost of handling and evacuating cooking gas from the ships to the mainland, allowing dealers to transfer the cost relief to consumers.


Just like Mr Jaffer, Mr Aziz has invested in building political networks that saw him serve as MP and treasurer of the ruling party-- Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM).

Mr Aziz’s ambitions to establish a presence in Kenya’s retail cooking gas business looked set to trigger another market fight with oil dealers such as Vivo, Rubis and Total for control of the 2.87 million households (23.9 percent of Kenyan households) that use liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) for cooking.

“We did not clear their Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) because of certain technical deficiencies. The EIA had some technical deficiencies which we want them to address before we consider their application further,” the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (Epra) said in a response to Business Daily queries.

The regulator did not disclose the technicalities linked to Taifa Gas, which is the largest gas retailer in Tanzania and has more than 30 LPG handling plants.

Taifa Gas wants to build the 30,000-ton Kenya facility at the Special Economic Zone in Dongo Kundu, near the Port of Mombasa.

It will join Jaffer’s firm, Africa Gas and Oil Ltd (AGOL), in the short list of firms that operate gas handling and storage at major entry ports in Africa.

AGOL has a storage capacity of 25,000 tonnes of LPG following an upgrade last year of the facility initially built in 2013.

The plant was built to allow for bulk imports of cooking gas to lower unit costs through economies of scale and curb shortages, which had been made difficult by the smaller import terminal at Shimanzi.

It had a storage capacity of 10,000 tonnes and the 25,000 tonnes unit is ranked among the largest terminals in sub-Saharan Africa.


The import handling and storage unit has helped relieve demand pressures through reduction of stock-outs, effectively easing pressure on LPG prices.

Previously, the oil marketers imported cooking gas individually in small quantities due to inadequate gas discharge facilities.

This led to cooking gas shortages and expensive LPG due to high import premiums and demurrage, which are penalties marketers pay shipping companies when tankers fail to offload in the stipulated time period.

The Shimanzi terminal has a capacity of just 1,400 metric tonnes.

The tankers would queue for up to two months, leaving the marketers with a daily fee of $20,000 (Sh1.7 million).

Private companies have been angling to benefit from the growing use of cooking gas in Kenya in the absence of investments by the government via import and storage facilities.

This is the reason the wealthy Mr Aziz is seeking a piece of Kenya’s gas market.

Mr Aziz facilitated Vodacom South Africa’s entry into Tanzania, and previously owned an estimated 35 percent stake in Vodacom Tanzania.

In 2019, he concluded the sale of the last tranche of his Vodacom Tanzania shares in deals that saw him pockets billions of shillings.

Apart from his shareholding in Vodacom Tanzania, he built a fortune from stakes in contract mining firm Caspian Mining, extensive real estate in Tanzania and the Middle East and investments in Tanzanian media.

He has been vocal about hurdles placed on his bid to enter the Kenyan market.

“Tanzania and Kenya potentially can be much bigger than they are. Unfortunately, we’re bogged down by petty politics, protectionism, inward-looking and trivial issues that impede economic development,” Mr Aziz said at a conference in Nairobi last year.

He was Tanzania’s first dollar billionaire (worth over Sh120 billion) and is still one of the country’s leading businessmen and power brokers.

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MY TAKE: wale wakenya ambao kwa miaka mingi walikua wakijinasibu kwamba Kenya ni nchi isiyoogopa Upinzani wa kibiashara, kwamba watanzania wakifika Kenya hawasumbuliwi lakini wakenya huwa wanasumbuliwa Tanzania, wake waone ukweli na unafiki wa nchi Yao.

Mara nyingi wakenya wamekuwa wakijazana ujinga kwamba wao mara zote wapo sahihi katika maamuzi Yao, ila nchi zingine zote ndizo zenye matatizo, haziipendi Kenya, zinaionea wivu Kenya. Katika hili Tanzania haipaswi kufumbia macho, lazima tujibu kwa nguvu zote.

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If we were to start with Kenyan businesses that have been denied permits in Tanzania, we'd be here till November.
 
Billionaire Rostam alitaka kujenga kiwanda cha gesi hapa Kenya ambayo ingepunguza bei ya gesi na mradi huo ulishapewa go ahead lakini naona sasa cartels wameanza kuingilia huu mradi. Sijui tatizo ni gani, mimi naona aachiwe ajenge tu. Kiwanda hiki kitapunguza bei ya gesi hapa Kenya na Wakenya ndio watafaidika. Mradi wowote ambao utasaidia kupunguza gharama ya maisha naomba uhurusiwe uendelee. Isiwe kwamba kuna corrupt cartels hapa Kenya wanazuia ujenzi wake ili waendelee kuimport gesi kwa bei ya juu na hawataki competition.

Hakika hili la kukwamishana ndilo linaloifanya Afrika iwe hapa ilipo. Gas ya bei nafuu ingepunguza ukali wa maisha kwa wananchi wa kawaida. Lkn pia ingeokoa mazingira kwa kiwango fulani kwani wananchi wasingetegemea sana nishati kama za mkaa na kuni.
Zaidi angeunga eac, AfCFTA Agreement.
 
Hakika hili la kukwamishana ndilo linaloifanya Afrika iwe hapa ilipo. Gas ya bei nafuu ingepunguza ukali wa maisha kwa wananchi wa kawaida. Lkn pia ingeokoa mazingira kwa kiwango fulani kwani wananchi wasingetegemea sana nishati kama za mkaa na kuni.
Zaidi angeunga eac, AfCFTA Agreement.
Pamoja na taxes ambayo angelipa na serikali kubenefit. Bila kusahau ajira ya mamia ya watu ambayo kiwanda hicho kingeleta.
 
Brookside Diaries were not denied permits instead they didn't comply to taxation issues of which they arrears as outstanding debts

The guise of 'tax evasion' is often used by governments, particularly African, to shut down companies they don't like.
 
Brookside, BAT (Tobacco), Lyons Maid, Kapa Oil
Where does BAT source her tobacco (less than half comes from Kenya)? That is contrary to common market protocols!

As for Kapa oil EA's customs union does not qualify reexportation of semi refined cooking oil huwezi uka-import cooking oil toka Indonesia halafu uka-repackage kwa ajili ya kuuza within the region! Fool u need to grow palm oil in Kunyaland first before being granted Tanzanian market access!

Brookside violated privatisation terms yaani walinunua dairy plant Arusha and then closed down the plant contrary to its promise to keep the operations running!
 
Where does BAT source her tobacco? As for Kapa oil EA's customs union does not qualify reexportation of semi refined cooking oil huwezi uka-import cooking oil toka Indonesia halafu uka-repackage kwa ajili ya kuuza within the region! Fool u need to grow palm oil Kunyaland!

Brookside violated privatisation terms yaani walinunua dairy plant Arusha and then closed down the plant contrary to its promise to keep the operations running!

Kapa Oil was about their margarine not cooking oil.
When Tanzania wishes like it, they always find something wrong with Kenyan companies, but no other country's.
 
The guise of 'tax evasion' is often used by governments, particularly African, to shut down companies they don't like.
I was employed by Brookside in Tanzania, I have my facts correct. Brookside management entrusted an unfaithful local Tanzania firm to conduct their crossborder logistics which included payment of import duties. The local untrustworthy representative used to frequently under declare the quantities of Brookside milk imported into Tanzania. So Brookside need to fix the bugs with TRA and thereafter pursue their representative in acourt of law for defrauding the principal company
 
Kenya imekuwa ya political cartels na hatuwezi kujitoa hapo. Wameharibu uchumi wetu. Sisi twaelekea kuwa kama Sri Lanka.
SRI Lanka inaingiaje hapa? Hebu muwe mnachukua time kusoma issues za kimataifa kabla ya ku post. Short of that mnaonyesha how mediocre minded you are
 
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