By KAMAU NGOTHOMore by this AuthorLike the Arror and Kimwarer "fictitious" dams, the Turkwel dam project was cooked up in the smoke-filled kitchen of the Kerio Valley Development Authority (KVDA), a State corporation in the docket of then Energy minister Nicholas Biwott. Like Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich, Mr Biwott hailed from the Kerio Valley. Like the present dams “project”, Turkwel was a series of scandals. Transformers were also priced by the French at more than double the international price, the envoy complained. In parliament, Mr Biwott called Turkwel “a landmark in Kenya’s economic development” and “a big step forward".

Source: Daily Nation March 01, 2019 03:11 UTC