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400 youth stranded in Voi after false job promise at Standard Gauge Railway

Voi, Kenya: Over 400 job seekers from Tigania West Constituency in Meru County are stranded after they were transported into the county with false promises of jobs at the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) project.

The youth, among them a woman, claimed Wednesday that they had been registered in Tigania West, where they paid Sh 1,300 to facilitate their transport from Meru to Voi in Taita-Taveta County.

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