Chinese company spent Sh1.3 billion on 5 SGR engineers

An SGR passenger locomotive engine pulls passenger wagons from Mombasa in 2017. [File, Standard]

China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) splashed over Sh1.3 billion on maintaining five Kenya Railways engineers supervising the construction of the Standard Gauge Railway, tender documents show.

Among the items bought for the five, together with their helpers who were also Kenya Railways Corporation (KRC) staff, were fat allowances, mobile phones and airtime.