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Petitioner faults Wetang'ula, Kingi, for shelving SGR dossier

By Brian Otieno | 1yr ago
Speaker of the National Assembly Moses Wetangula and Speaker of the Senate Amason Kingi. (File, Standard)

A Kenyan seeking to have Parliament investigate the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) has questioned why the bicameral House has shelved a petition he filed.

In a letter to Speakers Moses Wetang'ula (National Assembly) and Amason Kingi (Senate), certified fraud examiner Bernard Muchere wonders why a petition he filed in June last year was yet to be tabled in both Houses.

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