Taxpayers pay Sh1.2bn to shift water, sewer lines from Nairobi expressway path



Business Daily | by John Mutua


Taxpayers have spent Sh2.1 billion to relocate water and sewerage lines along Kenya’s first-double decker highway. The revelation was made in estimates of the supplementary budget tabled before Parliament Tuesday.

The money will be spent on Northern Collector— the line supplying water to Nairobi from Murang’a County and the James Gichuru Express Road sections, underling the hidden costs of constructing Kenya’s first double-decker highway.

Taxpayers are also spending Sh1.1 billion to foot relocation of electricity lines along the 27.1-kilometre highway that…

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