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February 28th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Telkom Kenya has handed over the National Fibre Optic Backbone Infrastructure (Nofbi) to the government amid questions over the fate of hundreds of millions in fees collected from the utility in the past five years.
This comes on the back of a parliamentary inquiry following concerns raised by the Auditor General that taxpayers’ money could be getting lost in the key infrastructure project.
In a report published last month, Auditor General Nancy Gathungu flagged an opaque tendering process that saw Chinese firm Huawei granted an automatic extension on its tender and a Sh1.7 billion payment to begin Phase Two of the project.
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