babayao255
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safu ya SGR Nairobi hadi Naivasha kuanza matumizi kesho - mwendo wa matendo sio maneno maneno
safu ya SGR Nairobi hadi Naivasha kuanza matumizi kesho - mwendo wa matendo sio maneno maneno
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Old - Hand
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Wazee wa mipasho!
Na vipi yule mkenya mwenzako punga lililoolewa south.. Nae lishaanza kazi rasmi kwa maslah ya wakenya woote!??
Na vipi yule mkenya mwenzako punga lililoolewa south.. Nae lishaanza kazi rasmi kwa maslah ya wakenya woote!??
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We nae ndio kituko kingine, mkondo wa SGR ndio nini? Dah! Kenya mbaki tu kwenye lugha zenu za kikabila...
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Asante kumbe mnafuatilia
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Mpuuzi tusha muelewa hutoo.
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Kenya to launch railway to ‘nowhere’
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 16 2019
The newly built Standard Gauge Railway line that passes through Maai Mahiu to the Suswa station. The project will be launched on October 16 although the entire line to Naivasha has not been completed. PHOTO | MACHARIA MWANGI | NATION MEDIA GROUP
In Summary
By DAILY NATION
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The Kenyan government plans to launch an expensive railway line that ends in the middle of nowhere after the Chinese government pulled the plug on funding for the next phase.
Transport Cabinet Secretary James Macharia said the government will launch four infrastructure projects on Wednesday, among them the double-decker Nairobi express highway, phase two of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) line to Suswa in Kenya's Rift Valley, a water project in Kimuka and an Inland Container Depot terminal in Maai Mahiu.
Details of the launch being organised by the Presidential Delivery Unit (PDU) have been highly guarded, a big departure from the glamour that came with the launch of the Mombasa-Nairobi line.
Mr Macharia said that after the launch of the express highway that will connect Cabanas to Westlands in the capital Nairobi, President Uhuru Kenyatta will go to the SGR Nairobi station before heading to Ongata Rongai, Ngong and Maai Mahiu on the outskirts of Nairobi. He will later commission the Suswa station.
“We shall first launch the passenger service and the freight one will come after two months,” he said in an interview with the Nation.
The phase extending the line from Nairobi to Naivasha is estimated to have cost Ksh150 billion ($1.5 billion). However, the entire line has not been completed.
The passenger line expected to start operations today will ferry travellers to only four of the 12 stations—Ongata Rongai, Ngong, Maai Mahiu and Suswa.
The Nation has learnt that even the Chinese contractors who build the line are also groping in the dark, with a source familiar with the project saying they had been told that “their presence may not really be required”.
Wilderness
In what is set to be one of the biggest challenges to face the line, the government is staring at a line that ends in the wilderness, kilometres away from any major town or population that could have fully utilised the line.
The lack of enough volumes of cargo has also made things worse for the line. This has forced the government to start with the passenger line, and shelve the cargo side to a later date.
This is the opposite of what happened with the Mombasa-Nairobi line where the cargo line started operations months before the official launch.
A passenger line, the world over, cannot operate profitably without being subsidised by the cargo side of the business. It was hoped that the Naivasha special economic zone would open up the region and bring in new demand for cargo.
But this is yet to be actualised. The long-drawn-out fight over delays in compensation for land between landowners and the government also saw the project suffer massive delays.
The fact that travellers to Naivasha and Nakuru cannot use the line in its current form only makes it harder. The last time the Nation visited the line, the stretch from Maai Mahiu to Naivasha was not yet complete.
Viability
But the biggest setback for the line came in April when the Chinese government refused to fund the rest of the line to Kisumu over viability concerns given that Uganda was not yet on board and Kenya on its own lacks enough cargo to make the line feasible.
Kenya needed Ksh380 billion ($3.8 billion) to complete the line to Kisumu. Instead, the Chinese government only parted with Ksh40 billion ($400 million) for upgrading the metre-gauge railway between Naivasha and Malaba as a compromise.
It is not clear why the Chinese government decided to fund Phase 2A of the line to Naivasha and abandon it halfway through, but it came as a slap on the face of the Kenyan government, given that it had been allowed to have its way on dictating terms on phase one, having done almost everything from the feasibility study and construction to buying locomotives, supervision and operation.
But when the time came, it waved the “show sufficient proof of viability” card in the faces of a government delegation that had been invited to Beijing.
To save the situation, the government resorted to connecting the new line to the old line at Naivasha, which will mean that cargo and passengers will have to be moved to the metre-gauge line while in transit.
This comes at a time when truckers are up in arms protesting a move by the Transport ministry to force cargo owners to use the SGR, a directive that they argue fails the test of a free-market economy.
www.theeastafrican.co.ke
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hongereni majirani...
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 16 2019
The newly built Standard Gauge Railway line that passes through Maai Mahiu to the Suswa station. The project will be launched on October 16 although the entire line to Naivasha has not been completed. PHOTO | MACHARIA MWANGI | NATION MEDIA GROUP
In Summary
- The phase extending the line from Nairobi to Naivasha is estimated to have cost Ksh150 billion ($1.5 billion).
- Kenya needed Ksh380 billion ($3.8 billion) to complete the line to Kisumu.
- The passenger line expected to start operations Wednesday will ferry travellers to only four of the 12 stations.
By DAILY NATION
More by this Author
The Kenyan government plans to launch an expensive railway line that ends in the middle of nowhere after the Chinese government pulled the plug on funding for the next phase.
Transport Cabinet Secretary James Macharia said the government will launch four infrastructure projects on Wednesday, among them the double-decker Nairobi express highway, phase two of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) line to Suswa in Kenya's Rift Valley, a water project in Kimuka and an Inland Container Depot terminal in Maai Mahiu.
Details of the launch being organised by the Presidential Delivery Unit (PDU) have been highly guarded, a big departure from the glamour that came with the launch of the Mombasa-Nairobi line.
Mr Macharia said that after the launch of the express highway that will connect Cabanas to Westlands in the capital Nairobi, President Uhuru Kenyatta will go to the SGR Nairobi station before heading to Ongata Rongai, Ngong and Maai Mahiu on the outskirts of Nairobi. He will later commission the Suswa station.
“We shall first launch the passenger service and the freight one will come after two months,” he said in an interview with the Nation.
The phase extending the line from Nairobi to Naivasha is estimated to have cost Ksh150 billion ($1.5 billion). However, the entire line has not been completed.
The passenger line expected to start operations today will ferry travellers to only four of the 12 stations—Ongata Rongai, Ngong, Maai Mahiu and Suswa.
The Nation has learnt that even the Chinese contractors who build the line are also groping in the dark, with a source familiar with the project saying they had been told that “their presence may not really be required”.
Wilderness
In what is set to be one of the biggest challenges to face the line, the government is staring at a line that ends in the wilderness, kilometres away from any major town or population that could have fully utilised the line.
The lack of enough volumes of cargo has also made things worse for the line. This has forced the government to start with the passenger line, and shelve the cargo side to a later date.
This is the opposite of what happened with the Mombasa-Nairobi line where the cargo line started operations months before the official launch.
A passenger line, the world over, cannot operate profitably without being subsidised by the cargo side of the business. It was hoped that the Naivasha special economic zone would open up the region and bring in new demand for cargo.
But this is yet to be actualised. The long-drawn-out fight over delays in compensation for land between landowners and the government also saw the project suffer massive delays.
The fact that travellers to Naivasha and Nakuru cannot use the line in its current form only makes it harder. The last time the Nation visited the line, the stretch from Maai Mahiu to Naivasha was not yet complete.
Viability
But the biggest setback for the line came in April when the Chinese government refused to fund the rest of the line to Kisumu over viability concerns given that Uganda was not yet on board and Kenya on its own lacks enough cargo to make the line feasible.
Kenya needed Ksh380 billion ($3.8 billion) to complete the line to Kisumu. Instead, the Chinese government only parted with Ksh40 billion ($400 million) for upgrading the metre-gauge railway between Naivasha and Malaba as a compromise.
It is not clear why the Chinese government decided to fund Phase 2A of the line to Naivasha and abandon it halfway through, but it came as a slap on the face of the Kenyan government, given that it had been allowed to have its way on dictating terms on phase one, having done almost everything from the feasibility study and construction to buying locomotives, supervision and operation.
But when the time came, it waved the “show sufficient proof of viability” card in the faces of a government delegation that had been invited to Beijing.
To save the situation, the government resorted to connecting the new line to the old line at Naivasha, which will mean that cargo and passengers will have to be moved to the metre-gauge line while in transit.
This comes at a time when truckers are up in arms protesting a move by the Transport ministry to force cargo owners to use the SGR, a directive that they argue fails the test of a free-market economy.
Kenya launches second phase of SGR line as China cuts funding
Phase two of Standard Gauge Railway line ends in the wilderness, kilometres away from any major town.
www.theeastafrican.co.ke
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hongereni majirani...
Arnold mrass cannambo
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Wacha kulenga story
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KAGAME on SGR: UHURU and RUTO conned poor Kenyans, the project is not worth the billions
JUNE 13, 2017 94 COMMENTS
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has poured cold water on Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), calling it “a big sham and a rip-off.”
Speaking at the sidelines of an international seminar at Kigali, Kagame said it was “extremely disturbing” that Kenya’s ruling Jubilee Regime would escalate the costs of the SGR to astronomical levels so as to fleece Kenyan taxpayers of their sweat “for the benefit of a few people at the top.”
“They are now trying to excite Kenyans with the refurbished trains that weres used in China in 1950s, running on diesel engines. Terrible!” Kagame said. Tanzania’s SGR is four times longer than Kenya’s but only two times as expensive.
Rwanda and Uganda recently shunned the Kenyan SGR, choosing instead to connect their countries to a railway line running from the Tanzanian port of Tanga through to Kigali and then up to the Ugandan capital, Kampala. High level corruption being perpetrated by Kenyan top officials, leading to inflated costs, was mainly blamed for the decision to eschew the Kenyan route.
“They should wait until we start running our electric trains. They will be very ashamed of themselves,” said the Rwandan President as he chided the Kenyan Administration for being insincere to its people.
KAGAME on SGR: UHURU and RUTO conned poor Kenyans, the project is not worth the billions
Kenya Today|Rwandan President Paul Kagame has poured cold water on Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), calling it “a big sham and a rip-off.” Speaking at the
Geza Ulole
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Where is Naivasha station?
Kevin85ify
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Damn!! Those stations are a sight to behold, combined with the natural beauty of the rift valley. The train ride is more of a world class safari on a budget.
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Kenya is the model of success for Railways in Africa, says Senegalese President
KAGAME on SGR: UHURU and RUTO conned poor Kenyans, the project is not worth the billions
JUNE 13, 2017 94 COMMENTS
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has poured cold water on Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), calling it “a big sham and a rip-off.”
Speaking at the sidelines of an international seminar at Kigali, Kagame said it was “extremely disturbing” that Kenya’s ruling Jubilee Regime would escalate the costs of the SGR to astronomical levels so as to fleece Kenyan taxpayers of their sweat “for the benefit of a few people at the top.”
“They are now trying to excite Kenyans with the refurbished trains that weres used in China in 1950s, running on diesel engines. Terrible!” Kagame said. Tanzania’s SGR is four times longer than Kenya’s but only two times as expensive.
Rwanda and Uganda recently shunned the Kenyan SGR, choosing instead to connect their countries to a railway line running from the Tanzanian port of Tanga through to Kigali and then up to the Ugandan capital, Kampala. High level corruption being perpetrated by Kenyan top officials, leading to inflated costs, was mainly blamed for the decision to eschew the Kenyan route.
“They should wait until we start running our electric trains. They will be very ashamed of themselves,” said the Rwandan President as he chided the Kenyan Administration for being insincere to its people.
KAGAME on SGR: UHURU and RUTO conned poor Kenyans, the project is not worth the billions
Kenya Today|Rwandan President Paul Kagame has poured cold water on Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), calling it “a big sham and a rip-off.” Speaking at thewww.kenya-today.com
September 19, 2016Harun MasindeNo CommentsUncategorized
Sengeal President Mr. Macky Sally is taken through a presentation at the Nairobi South Passenger station construction site
Senegal’s President Macky Sall recently visited the Mombasa-Nairobi SGR Project to assess progress in its implementation. The President was welcomed by the Principal Secretary for Transport Mr. Wilson Nyakera Irungu, the Chinese Ambassador to Kenya Mr. Liu Xianfa, China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) Chairman Mr. Wen Gang, and Kenya Railways Managing Director Mr. Atanas Maina.
In his speech, President Macky Sall praised the work being carried out in Kenya, noting that Kenya needed a complex railway system due to the uneven terrain and wildlife reserves. He seemed enthusiastic to have a similar project developed in Senegal with the help of CRBC after seeing the success in Kenya. He also praised the Chinese government for the role it has played thus far in the development of Africa.
Principal Secretary for Transport Mr. Irungu Nyakera, expressed gratitude at the work ethic and close cooperation between the Kenyan government, CRBC, Kenya Railways and the EXIM bank in driving the SGR dream into a reality. He lauded the Chinese government for the scholarships being awarded to Kenyan students and the development on the local Railway Training Institute (RTI), a clear indication that Kenyans are entirely inclusive in the future of the SGR operations.
The forum was filled with praise directed at Kenya Railways and the China Road and Bridge Corporation on the highly efficient progress of the construction of the Mombasa-Nairobi railway line. Kenya Railways Managing Director Mr. A. K. Maina outlined the dire need for an upgraded railway in the region in his speech, quoting the benefits of the Standard Gauge Railway to span more jobs, technology transfer, national security, GDP growth and most importantly increased freight transfer. Mr. Maina expressed hope that the project will induce regional integration by the year 2030.
Senegal President Mr. Macky Sall is taken on a guided tour of the Nairobi Passenger Station construction site
The Chinese Ambassador to Kenya Mr. Liu Xianfa was particularly impressed with the Kenyan government and praised the vision and strategic planning therein saying he foresees a developing country and a fostering friendship between Africa and China.
After the forum, the dignitaries were given a tour of the Nairobi South Station, which is currently under construction. The tour included viewing of the dispatch center and the main station building which appeared to be well under way and the Chinese contractors explained the details of the project and its importance to Kenya and Africa as a whole.
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Hawa ndio warembo huko kwenu?