Court stops Sh1bn payout for four SGR landowners

train cargo, standard gauge railway, sgr
[Image source: REUTERS/ Thomas Mukoya]


Nation | by Brian Ocharo


Landowners whose parcels the government forcefully acquired to build the standard gauge railway (SGR) may have to wait a little longer to be paid after the appellate court put brakes on compensation plans.

The court has suspended an earlier directive that required the National Land Commission (NLC) to compensate the four landowners following a finding by the High Court that they were unfairly left out of the payment made by the agency in 2015…

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[Image source: REUTERS/ Thomas Mukoya]

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