Nairobi, April 18 -- The other day, we woke up to the news that the government had suspended two Chinese mining companies, Zhengwei and Chuanshan, that were mining diatomite in Baringo.

The matter is yet to be ventilated in the public domain, and we know very little about the dynamics that went on behind the scenes to cause the abrupt expulsion of these foreigners.

The extractive sector, mining, fiscal justice, and unfair exploitation by foreign investors were on my mind recently.

This is after I had completed reading the report by the investigations group, the Blood Gold Report, which documents how the Russian mercenary entity-the Wagner Group-has expanded mining activities by trading mineral concessions with the provision of protecti...