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State agencies ignored AG’s counsel on railway contract, MPs told

Public Investments Committee chairman Adan Keynan at Continental House in Nairobi Monday during the House team’s probe on the Sh1.2 trillion railway tender. [PHOTO: Boniface Okendo/STANDARD]

By PAUL WAFULA and MOSES NJAGIH

NAIROBI, KENYA: The only body with oversight over Government contracts brushed aside warnings by the State’s chief legal advisor over the Sh327 billion contract for the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR).

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