The government may have set up taxpayers for a Sh4.3 billion loss by offering what could be a non-refundable advance payment to an Italian firm that was on the brink of bankruptcy for the construction of the failed Itare Dam project which is currently under investigation.
The Sh4 billion non-refundable advance payment is just a pointer to the amount of skeletons in the closet of the dam scandal that are beginning to come out as a blame game between officials and the company at the centre of the scam kicks off in earnest.
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