Image copyright EPA Image caption The New railway links the capital Nairobi to Mombasa port
senior Kenyan govt officials were charged in court docket with fraud over the development of a $3.2bn (£2.5bn) Chinese-funded railway line.
the 2 are accused of paying greater than $2m in reimbursement to non-public corporations which falsely claimed to own land through which the road ran.
The officials and 15 other accused have pleaded now not to blame to the fees.
The railway line was once Kenya’s greatest infrastructure project on account that independence from the united kingdom in 1963.
President Uhuru Kenyatta opened it in Might remaining yr, hailing it as a brand new bankruptcy in the East African state’s history.
