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Four CSs storm Mombasa port at night to assess work

Officials from Kenya Electricity Transmission Company Limited at the port of Mombasa. Four Cabinet Secretaries toured the facility between Friday night and yesterday to ascertain claims of graft and poor work flow. [Gideon Maundu, Standard]

Four cabinet secretaries and anti-corruption detectives stormed the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) offices at the Port of Mombasa to investigate corruption and massive cargo losses.

The presence of CSs Fred Matiang’i (Interior), Adan Mohamed (Industrialisation), Joe Mucheru (ICT) and James Macharia (Transport) on Friday, Saturday night and yesterday highlighted growing frustration by the Jubilee Government with operational inefficiencies at the port believed to be engineered to undermine the new standard gauge railway (SGR) freight services.

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