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SGR electric upgrade to cost taxpayers Sh49bn more

Workers build a standard gauge railway overpass in Taru, Kwale County in May. PHOTO | KEVIN ODIT

Taxpayers will fork out nearly Sh49 billion more following fresh plans for the electrification of the standard gauge railway (SGR) line between Mombasa and Nairobi.

Transport secretary James Macharia said the 609 kilometres of railway track from Mombasa to Nairobi would be made electric in a deal reached with Uganda and Rwanda.

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