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Did State conduct due diligence on wind power line contractor?

Lake Turkana wind power project

Did the Government carry out due diligence when it was shopping for a contractor to build one of the largest power transmission lines?

This is one of the questions that has cropped up on several occasions over the last one year whenever officials from the Ministry of Energy tried to explain how one of the largest wind farms in Africa continues to stay idle more than a year after its completion.

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