Directors of Lebanese firm Zakhem face jail over Sh537m debt

Workers lay a pipeline. Azicon Kenya was one of the companies sub-contracted by Zakhem International Construction for the replacement of the 450-kilometre Nairobi-Mombasa pipeline in 2018, at a cost of Sh48 billion.

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A Kenyan firm wants directors of Lebanese firm Zakhem International Construction Limited sentenced to civil jail over the failure to pay a debt of Sh537 million.

Azicon Kenya Limited said in the application that there was evidence that Zakhem International had recently received the last payment from Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC), for a tender to replace the Mombasa-Nairobi pipeline.

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