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SGR contracts: What happens when private interest call the shots

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Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) train exits the Voi terminus in August 2021 [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

The shocking details emerging from the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) contractual agreements have put to rest the puzzle around Jubilee's government's empty rhetoric.

Evidentially, it never made sense how the government kept on reporting robust Gross Domestic Product growth rates that never seemed to reflect for households, businesses and even on government revenues. As it turns out, these were conduits to profit highly connected people in government and their associates.

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