Details Emerges about the Purchase of SGR as Kenya Allegedly Paid Twice the Amount Used by Senegal.
President Uhuru Kenyatta was eager to fulfill his development blueprint which is commonly referred to as The Big Four Agenda before the end of his two year term as Kenya’s president. He was aiming at delivering proper housing, free universal health coverage, food security, expansion of manufacturing industry and better transport system to the local citizens.
However, personnel behind different sectors have hindered proper delivery of these services through looting public funds that are channeled to either start or complete these projects.
One ministry that the head of state has invested in is the transport system which involves construction of roads and standard gauge railways popularly refered to as SGR.
Few minutes back, Kenyans Newspaper has highlighted a story where a comparison was made between the cost at which Kenyan government purchased one SGR and that of Senegal’s.
Kenya spent 342 billion in buying the same machine that costed Senegal 147 million which means that 195 billion might have been misused or rather channeled to a project that Kenyans are not aware of. If you compare the condition of the two trains then you’ll notice a very big difference being that the one in Senegal is a modern one compared to ours.
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