At the same time, President Ruto said Kenya and Uganda will jointly extend the petroleum pipeline to the region, including to the DRC, to give impetus to regional integration and trade.

Consequently, the Government of Kenya is divesting 65 per cent of shareholding in the Kenya Pipeline Company through the Nairobi Securities Exchange, and the President encouraged public and private entities, and citizens of the EAC to buy shares.

On the relations between the two countries, the President noted that Kenya and Uganda had ratified new cooperation frameworks during a joint ministerial meeting in Nairobi recently.

He explained that both governments had agreed to jointly own the pipeline infrastructure.

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