Investigators are combing through land compensation documents related to the 450-kilometre, 1,500-megawatt Mombasa-Nairobi power line — the biggest such project by Ketraco — whose mandate is to build infrastructure for high-voltage electricity transmission. CONTRACTORSWhile the government had projected to spend Sh3.8 billion on land compensation in the SGR project, the first phase from Miritini to Embakasi consumed Sh30 billion, or 10 times the original budget. The market value of the land, detectives note, was Sh4.5 million. Auditors had also noted that another company was paid Sh72 million with no paperwork or valuation of its land in Kajiado. WASTAGE“The payments were not accompanied by a land valuation report, the compensation rate applied, and how the Sh72 million was arrived at,” noted the auditors.

Source: Daily Nation February 04, 2019 07:18 UTC