What next after review cuts Uganda SGR costs?

[John Ashworth]

What next after review cuts Uganda SGR costs by $120m?

The review and signing of the addendum to the standard gauge railway contract by the Government of Uganda and the Chinese contractor has seen the project cost of the eastern route from Malaba to Kampala slashed by $120 million, but officials cannot say whether this development guarantees the country the financing to start construction...

From the initial estimates of $2.3 billion in the contract signed in March 2015, the 273km section of Uganda’s SGR project will now cost $2.18 billion.

From inception, parliament deemed the project cost as inflated, and indeed, the Engineering Procurement and Construction contractor CHEC, had also advised that a number of aspects in the project were unnecessary...