Delayed Ketraco projects to cost taxpayers

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People Daily | by Noel Wanderaa


The Auditor General has warned that rescheduled multi-billion projects under the watch of Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (Ketraco) will cost taxpayers dearly after the contracted company went burst.

Mumbai-based Jyoti Structures Ltd has been put on the spot for a deal to design, deliver and commission lines and substations between 2013 and 2017 at an approved budget of Sh6.5 billion, with a government counter-funding of Sh3 billion.

The report by Auditor General Nancy Gathungu tabled in the National Assembly on February 18 notes that…

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