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Deliberate smear campaign set up Kenya’s old rail to a slow death

A section of the old railway line that has been vandalised in Molo, Nakuru County. [File, Standard]

The gods have nothing to do with the Lunatic’s Express journey to its premature deathbed.

Interviews with former Kenya Railway workers paint a picture of a premeditated demise plotted long before the monolithic parastatal started its descent into a nightmare in 1989.

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