How KAA lost Sh4.3 billion in airport terminal works

KAA Managing Director Jonny Andersen. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

The contractor who was to undertake the ambitious Greenfield terminal at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) was paid Sh4.31 billion without undertaking any work, before the project contract was terminated.

The startling revelation of how taxpayers' billions may have easily gone down the drain was made by the Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) when its management appeared before the National Assembly’s Public Investment Committee yesterday.