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How taxpayers may have paid twice for a Sh48.4 billion project

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Kenya Pipeline Company Managing Director Joe Sang during an interview. [Denis Kibuchi, Standard]

Shocking details have emerged, exposing how Kenyan taxpayers may have paid double the cost of constructing the Sh48.4 billion pipeline, Line 5, the nation's second most expensive single infrastructure project after the Standard Gauge Railway.

The murky revelation points to allegations of corruption where the people of Kenya may have paid debts that they never borrowed, poor workmanship, and betrayal of public trust, offering a damning indictment of government complicity, legal loopholes, and a system that allowed graft to flourish with impunity.

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