Eight years after fanfare announcement, Standard Gauge Railway still runs on diesel as government agency scrubs website clean of embarrassing electrification promises
Auditor General Nancy Gathungu’s latest report for the financial year ending June 2024 has laid bare a system riddled with loopholes that passengers are systematically exploiting to travel without paying
Four Nairobi based businessmen have lost their bid to stop the ongoing construction of an inland container depot for the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) in Syokimau, Nairobi. John Muswanyi, John Mugo Njeru, Byron Kanyu, and Victor Muiru sought a court injunction to stop the building of the SGR depot claiming that they own the 15-acre land […]
Last week, President Uhuru Kenyatta inaugurated the Nairobi – Naivasha second phase of the Standard Gauge Railway, which honestly goes to nowhere, forget Jubilee’s promises. And not just that, but also, the Chinese government has since cut funds for the SGR project after the government failured to prove project viability. In a bizarre report that […]
Just when you thought you’ve seen enough of crap the State parastatal have shitted on Kenyans so far, KNH, a national referral hospital defecates another. Kenyatta National Hospital which is Kenya’s largest referral medical facility intends to put up a seven-storey private hospital to fund public services in the parent institution at a cost of […]
Kenya has been rolling deep down into public debt in the name of development. Government handlers have been on the frying pot for advising the government of projects that are not profit generating at the expense of the tax payers. Recently a Chinese loan worth Ksh.374 billion for the extension of the SGR from Naivasha […]
The President will today launch one of the biggest if not the biggest infrastructural project completed under jubilee, the completion of the first phase of SGR that is Mombasa- Kisumu that was built at a cost of 400B. The project has been marred by controversy from inception with procurement scandals, project overquoting amongst the many […]
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