Fibre optic network needs a rethink

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Workers lay fibre-optic cable in Nyeri town on August 18, 2020. FILE PHOTO | NMG

If you check the data from the latest published external debt register, you will discover that one of the expensive commercial debts is a $71 million loan we took from China to pay Huawei to build for us the National Optic Fibre Backbone (Nofib) network.

As a matter of fact, the debt ledger put the amount outstanding as at June 30, 2018, at a whopping Sh5.8 billion.

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.