I used to have an article from 2010, I can't seem to find it, but here is another one from 2012 talking about SGR contract being signed, this article is from CCCC the parent company of CRBC which built the Msa-Nrb section. Its from 2012, Uhuru became president in 2013.
Contract for online works of Mombasa-Nairobi Railway is signed by CRBC
Source: CRBC Time:
2012-10-09
On October 4, CRBC signed a business contract with the Kenyan Railway Authority for the online works of stand-gauged Mombasa-Nairobi Railway, with a contract value of 1.147 billion U.S. dollars.
Mombasa-Nairobi Railway has a full length of 485 kilometers, a designed speed of 120km/h, a construction period of five years and a contract value of 3.804 billion US dollars. With a contract value of 2.657 billion US dollars, the offline civil works involve earthworks, bridge and culvert construction, track laying and station building construction, will be designed and constructed in the mode of EPC and in accordance with China’s railway technology standards; with a contract value of 1.147 billion US dollars, the online part involves communication system, signal system, information system, power system and water supply and drainage systems, as well as locomotives, carriages, and test and maintenance equipment.
According to sources, Mombasa-Nairobi Railway is an integral part of the northern strategic corridor of the East African Community (EAC). The corridor stretches 1,584 kilometers from Mombasa, Kenya, the largest port in East Africa to Kampala, capital of Uganda, is a material transport channel among inland countries including Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan, as well as the most important trunk railway in the EAC. The project will provide Kenya with convenient, safe and reliable modern passenger and cargo transport services, and is of great importance for the EAC to create a common market, perfect industrial division and promote tourist resource development in East Africa. |
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Source:
China Communications construction company Ltd.-Company News
At this point in time, the feasibility study had already been done in 2009! that's when the cost of the project was determined, that's the time when speed was determined, that's when they decided to forgo electric traction in favors of Diesel. From 2009 after the feasibility report was done and approved, that's when they started the environmental and social impact report ESIA which was released in 2012 and the contract was then signed with the contractor CRBC (Again, b4 Uhuru Kenyatta was president).. The cost was already known, everything was already set, the only thing that was left was money.
When Uhuru became president, It was in 2014 that he traveled to China to sign the loan with EXIM bank which paved way for the commencement of the project. Most people you find on twitter, social media, offline only remember this part, and if you ask them they will tell you that this was the time that Uhuru's government changed the amount of loan sijui they inflated the cost.. blah blah blah, but as you can see from the article, the cost was already determined way back before he was president, all he had to do was sign (or not if he had chosen to) but he certainly did not change it.
-Alafu hapo pia unaona wameongelea Chinese technical standards (Si ulikua unasema hakuna kitu kama hicho? thats where Class I came from)
- You can also see a breakdown of the cost $2.66 Billion ndo garama ya ujenzi wa reli na stesheni zake pekee (offline works), $1.15 Billion ni garama ya online works which includes treni 54 na mabehewa karibia elfu mbili na heavy machinery equipents za kufanya maintenance among other things......
But When Kenya SGR is compared to other railways in terms of cost per Km, watu huchukua hio total cost and divide it by route length....... Wakati, kwa mfano, SGR Tanzania, hii total cost ni ya kujenga reli, stesheni na overhead electric poles pekee,
Tayari najua TANESCO wamegaramika $60million kujenga dedicated transmission line ya SGR kama sijakosea
Kuna vile vichwa 17 na EMU 80 za abiria ambazo mmepiga order kule South Korea kwa garama ya $300 Million, tena naskia mkisema hio si order kamili, kuna vyengine sijui mtaagizia kutoka sehemu nyengine..
Alafu bado kuna garama ya yale mabehewa ambayo if I rem correctly ni zaidi ya mabehewa 1,500. That will cost you like an extra $100 million give or take....
Ukiongeza hizi garama nyengine ndogo ndogo utakuta mwisho wa siku if you were to take the total cost devide by route length kama vile Kenya, you will get different results than what you get now!