Published 19 Jan,2021 via Business Daily - Taxpayers are set to foot a Sh4 billion compensation claim by a private meat firm for breach of contract for its abattoir taken over by the government.
Auditor-General Nancy Gathungu said the State Department of Livestock faces the bill following a 1986 suit after the government took over the abattoir Halal Meat Products Limited in Ngong without compensation.
The State had intended to expand the facility and even provide additional land and a Sh27 million loan towards the project.
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