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Chinese firm expects super profit of Sh8.6b from Nairobi project

Thika Road Super-highway. China Wu Yi expects to earn an abnormal profit of Sh8.6 billion from a contract to upgrade a 25km section of the Nairobi-Nakuru Highway. (PHOTO: COURTESY)

China Wu Yi expects to earn an abnormal profit of Sh8.6 billion from a contract to upgrade a 25km section of the Nairobi-Nakuru Highway.

Directors of the Chinese State-owned firm were told yesterday that more than half of the contract sum of Sh16.4 billion would accrue as profits. The message to directors offers Kenyans a rare glimpse of how lucrative  infrastructure projects are for Chinese firms, and more broadly, what informs the scramble for African opportunities.

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