Kenyan taxpayers paid dearly for the comfort of Chinese employees brought in to build the first phase of the standard gauge railway (SGR), including furnishing their houses and paying for their domestic staff.
This is despite the fact that the Chinese were remunerated better than their Kenyan counterparts, who were paid per day.
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