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Businessman awarded Sh126m for land forcefully taken to build SGR

A section of SGR's Nairobi terminus in Embakasi. [David Njaaga, Standard]

A businessman has been awarded over Sh126 million for compulsory acquisition of his land to construct the Standard Gauge Railway.

Environment and Land Court Judge Oguttu Mboya ordered Kenya Railways Corporation and National Land Commission to pay George Kariuki the amount after finding that he was unlawfully deprived of his property after it was forcefully acquired in 2016 to build the SGR.

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