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Stalled project cost Kibaki State House Sh88.8 million

Retired President Mwai Kibaki whose regime has come under sharp scrutiny over expenditure in State House. [PHOTO: MBUGUA KIBERA/STANDARD]

NAIROBI, KENYA: State House under retired President Mwai Kibaki paid Sh88.8 million for a petrol station and a workshop that stalled just a month after construction began.

The mandarins also failed to properly explain how they spent another Sh56 million on fuel, oil and lubricants for the luxury vehicles that form the presidential motorcade.

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