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Why Kenya Should Have Never Borrowed So Much Money From China to Build the Standard Gauge Railway

by Eric Olander

The Kenyan national television network KTN broadcast a scathing 10-minute mini-documentary on Sunday that detailed the controversial history of the Standard Gauge Railway and how the lack of proper due diligence set the project to fail from the start.

The focal point of the documentary is testimony by Transport Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen during his confirmation hearings last month, where he explained in detail why this project was doomed to fail:

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