Red faces over $35m border fence
Publish date: 18 March 2019
Issue Number: 815
Diary: IBA Legalbrief Africa
Category: A Matter of Justice
Kenyan MPs have asked how a 10km wire fence built along the country's border with Somalia cost $35m. The government had originally promised to build a complex wall to run about 700km along the border. The Daily Nation reports that Parliament has now suspended construction and ordered the Directorate of Criminal Investigations and the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission to investigate the project. BBC News reports that the initiative aimed to tackle illegal trafficking and immigration and to keep al-Shabab militants in Somalia from crossing over into Kenyan territory.
