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Kenya Pipeline risks losing Sh224m in insurance claim

EnviroServ, the company cleaning oil-polluted Thange River in Makueni County, technical manager Nicholas Kipchirchir gestures as he makes a point to Makueni Senator Mutula Kilonzo Junior (right) and Kenya Pipeline Company Managing Director Joe Sang at an inspection trench near the condemned river on July 5, 2017. PHOTO | PIUS MAUNDU | NATION MEDIA GROUP

By  Patrick Alushula

Business Reporter

Nation Media Group

The Auditor General says Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) risks losing Sh224.3 million insurance compensation claim for the costs it incurred in cleaning up a river after oil spillage.

KPC spent Sh224.3 million in cleaning up River Thange in Makueni County after the oil spillage in 2015 disrupted lives of thousands of people living around the river.

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