Subcontractors deny role in Sh10 billion oil pipeline cost jump

Workers put final touches on a petroleum evacuating pipe before it is laid down in Eldoret town. FILE PHOTO | JARED NYATAYA

Subcontractors working on the new Mombasa-Nairobi oil pipeline have distanced themselves from a Sh10 billion extra claim that the main contractor is demanding from the Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC).

Five sub-contractors told Parliament yesterday that they had not asked for any variation or extension of the period for completion of the Sh48 billion project.

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