'Didn't benefit country': Kenya ousts Tata Chemicals

Kenya's President William Ruto said on Thursday he had ordered Tata Chemicals to stop its operationsNAIROBI: Kenya's President William Ruto said on Thursday he had ordered Tata Chemicals to stop its operations as its presence had failed to benefit the country.Fresh investors would take over its mining rights for minerals that are processed into soda ash.Ruto said he asked a unit of the Mumbai-based company "to pack and go" because it has been exporting soda ash rather than using it at local facilities to make glass and chemicals. "That Tata company... had that contract for 100 years yet it has not built anything in Kajiado," Ruto said of the county that's home to Lake Magadi, from which the firm has extracted minerals to make soda ash for two decades. "They take our resource to India and o