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NLC yet to pay Sh4 billion to Mombasa landowners displaced by SGR, court told

A Standard Guage Railway (SGR) line cargo engine sails slowly through the Mkupe fly over heading to the port of Mombasa. [Gideon Maundu/Standard]

The Government is yet to pay Sh4 billion to landowners whose property was compulsorily acquired for the construction of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) five years ago.

National Land Commission (NLC) lawyer Solomon Mbuthia on Wednesday told Justice Charles Yano there was a court order stopping the payment.

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