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Revealed: Contents of Kenya Airways deal that handed McKinsey billions

Kenya Airways flight at the JKIA in Nairobi. Photo WILLIS AWANDU

Consultancy firm McKinsey and Company demanded to be paid in advance in order to provide services to Kenya Airways in a controversial contract that saw it earn hundreds of millions of shillings before it got down to work.

According to a memorandum seen by The Standard on Sunday, the firm was to earn at least Sh1.7 billion in the first 18 months of the contract as standard costs alone.

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