Crush everything you want, Chinese to work at SGR until 2027

Workers on the normal gauge railway. The SGR will still have Chinese workers until 2027. FILE PHOTOGRAPH

By PATRICK LANG & AT

The Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) will still have Chinese laborers until the end of the year. 2027 when the local staff should take over, the government said

The Ministry of Transport defended the cost of managing genetic resources of 1.7 billion shillings a month and badured Kenyans that the line carries out profits and will repay his loan by 2020.

Secretary of Transportation, James Macharia, said: the percentage of Chinese workers will decrease each year, peaking in 2027, when the SGR will be directed to 100 % by Kenyans.

RACISM

M. Macharia also fought allegations of racism and discrimination against Kenyans. "If this investment is not a success, I wonder what will ever be," Mr Macharia told the Transport Committee of the National Assembly

. launched this service 30 months ah instead of the schedule. We will make a total of 16 trains on the runway by the end of the 2017/18 fiscal year, and we expect this to reach 28 by the end of June of next year. ", he said, adding that the Ethiopian SGR did not have many trains on the track and as much revenue as Kenyan.

In a paper he submitted to the committee chaired by David Pkosing, Member of Parliament for Pokot South, Mr. Macharia gave a picture of the newly published RMS on the allegations of racism, the huge costs of the line and the slow transfer of skills.

He argued the controversial rule gagging personal SGR to comment on issues on the line on social media.

On racism, he cited the cafeteria According to him, although there are no separate tables for the Chinese and Kenyans, a "failure in terms of cultural integration" is to blame. [19659005] The staff has the same menu, he adds

. compared to 2,679 Kenyans, the data shown were presented to Parlia

5,000 CHINESE WORKERS

According to the media, the figure could reach 5,000, Mr. Macharia emphasizing the fact that the report contained the names of those who had left Kenya at the end of their badignment in 2016.

Questions were raised about the slowness with which the transfer of skills to the SGR was in progress, with the exception of other claims that the Chinese were paid for unskilled and skilled jobs that Kenyans However, while the ministry said that 76% of the workforce was Kenyan, it is still remarkable that near the half of the 2,679 jobs are outsourced, of which about 400 are still in training.

the 2,679 outsourced security agents and the 394 pre-employment trainees at the Railway Training Institute.

A total of 1,635 "direct employees" are not clbadified according to what they do.

A question from a member of the committee about what percentage of the 841 Chinese workers are in management, or the unskilled force, has remained unanswered.

On the cost of managing the project, Mr. Macharia made a breakdown to the committee showing that SGR will reach the breakeven point by June 2019.