Sh6.7 billion project could cost Sh13 billion for half the work

NSSF acting Chief Executive Officer Anthony Omerikwa (L) with State Department of Public Works QS Alphonce Okweto during the National Assembly Public Investment Committee visit to the controversial Hazina Trade Centre in Nairobi on March 21, 2018. [Photo by Boniface Okendo/Standard]

A Chinese firm is demanding Sh6.9 billion more for a building that was scaled down and whose construction has stalled.

A parliamentary watchdog committee was yesterday told the contractor undertaking the Hazina Trade Centre project for the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) was making new demands.