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Puzzle of stalled multi-billion shilling Mwai Kibaki projects in Nyeri

The Karatina market in Nyeri County whose construction has stalled due to lack of funds.[PHOTO: KIBATA KIHU/STANDARD]

During the last five years of Mwai Kibaki’s tenure as president, Nyeri County where his his ancestral home is domiciled, benefited immensely from government-commissioned projects.

Most of these projects were sanctioned under the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) designed to boost economic growth and help the country's economy ride out of a recession that had been  triggered by the violence that followed the 2007 presidential election.

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