12 years of loans gone to waste in JKIA's tragic tale of stalled progress

International departure (check inn) area at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA). [Wilberforce Okwiri,Standard]

Weeks after President William Ruto scrapped the controversial Sh250 billion Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) deal linked to Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, The Standard has uncovered further troubling revelations that trace back in time, exposing schemes of grand corruption within government.

It has now emerged that the Kenyan government accumulated over Sh100 billion in loans over the past 12 years in stages, supposedly for the modernisation and expansion of JKIA, but these projects never materialised.

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