Kenya Railways, China SGR firm in tickets standoff
A file photo of passengers at the Mombasa SGR terminus ahead of a trip to Nairobi. PHOTO | WACHIRA MWANGI | NATION MEDIA GROUP
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This comes after revelations in 2018 of suspected fraud that triggered investigations that now appear to have stalled.
KRC faces an uphill task in its bid to wrest the system from the Chinese as the SGR Operations and Maintenance Contract stipulates that the passenger ticketing function is the responsibility of the operator.
The KRC write-up further noted that the contract had shortcomings that required to be reviewed to allow the Kenyan side much more space for robust monitoring of the operator.
Kenya reportedly pays Sh1 billion every month to CRBC to run the SGR – a figure that officials have never commented on.
