Kenya to pay China firm billions for undone JKIA Greenfield job
Thursday July 29 2021
Terminal 1A at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi. The Greenfield terminal was to handle 20 million passengers or three times the existing capacity. PHOTO | SALATON NJAU | NMG
By GERALD ANDAE
Summary
The talks mark a reversal from Kenya’s earlier position that the Chinese firm should refund Sh4 billion downpayment for the project that never took off.
The government has since 2016, when the JKIA contract was cancelled, argued that no work was done at the airport despite Catic receiving money from the State.
Kenya has opened compensation talks with a Chinese firm whose contract to build the second terminal at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) was cancelled amid fears a standoff could cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of shillings.
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