Handful Chinese firms snap Sh1trn contracts

Ongoing construction of the Nairobi Expressway Uhuru Highway. PHOTO | DIANA NGILA | NMG

A few Chinese companies have amassed road and infrastructure contracts worth Sh1 trillion under the Jubilee administration while Kenyan contractors are left to fight for small roads and sub contracts.

Their speed, financing muscle and negotiation power has endeared them to almost all government departments, ministries and parastatals, which have seen them eat the lunch of local companies who the government accuses of shoddy jobs and uncompetitive bids.

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