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Landowners receive Sh5.5bn in new rail payout

Kenya Railways boss Atanas Maina. Kenya Railways has played down worries that the new 471-kilometre railway will not meet the 2017 completion deadline due to design irregularities. PHOTO | KEVIN ODIT

The Kenya Railways Corporation will next week start to distribute half of the Sh10 billion to landowners whose property was acquired to build a new Mombasa-Nairobi railway line.

Managing director Atanas Maina announced in Mombasa on Tuesday that Sh5.5 billion would be wired to the accounts of 2,000 landowners in Kwale, Taita Taveta, Makueni and Kajiado, putting to rest one of the sensitive aspects of the mega project.

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