For as long as the media was reporting that President Uhuru Kenyatta and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga were off to China to secure funding for the second phase of the SGR from Naivasha to Kisumu, State House didn’t see the need to retract those claims.
Perhaps not keen to contradict the former PM, State House chose to remain silent. In fact, it was Raila who announced last month that he was accompanying the president to the Asian country to negotiate the funding.