World Bank questions Kenya’s costly SGR project

The Standard Gauge Railway could have cost Kenyan taxpayers 117 billion shillings less had it been built at the same cost metric as Tanzania's. That is the stark comparison drawn by the World Bank in its latest Economic Update, which questions the high cost of Kenya's flagship infrastructure project and warns that corruption and weak public administration could derail the country's ambition to become the next Singapore. Olive Burrows reports.