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Raila Odinga: Jubilee leaders took Sh130 billion SGR bribe

NASA Candidate Raila Odinga adresses party supporters during a campaign at Narok Stadium on 29th June, 2017. He was accompanied by Kalonzo Musyoka, Moses Wetangula, Musalia Mudavadi and Isaac Rutto. By Emmmanuel Wanson

The Opposition presidential candidate has claimed that Jubilee leaders were paid billions in kick-backs for the standard gauge railway project.

In bare-knuckled politics that is now the norm between the rival political coalitions - the National Super Alliance (NASA) and the Jubilee Party - Raila Odinga claimed that the leaders were paid bribes amounting to Sh130 billion.

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