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Bumpy ride ahead as State privatises roads

Kenyans will pay through their noses to use roads if the government’s plans to allow private firms to invest in road construction succeeds.

In his Budget Statement in Parliament on Thursday, The National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani, said the government would amend laws governing the collection of toll fees on Kenyan roads to enable the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure get into agreements with private sector players to collect fees from road users.

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