Why DP Ruto's claims on SGR untrue

DP William Ruto [Courtesy]

Early this month, The Standard published an exclusive story revealing taxpayers are spending more than Sh30 million daily to subsidise operations at the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR).

“It costs a billion a month to run the SGR,” explained Deputy President William Ruto during an interview with a local television station. “The SGR is a huge operation…we have seven cargo trains every day on the SGR. By December, we will have 12 cargo trains every day on the SGR,” he said adding that by the end of this year, the SGR “will have broken even less than a year since we began operations”.