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How a firm close to Ruto won a Sh337 billion tender without applying

EDF Kenya limited used proximity to President William Ruto to clinch a Sh337 billion Grand Falls Dam project. [File, Standard]

Fresh revelations have emerged about EDF Kenya Ltd, a company that used proximity to President William Ruto to clinch a Sh337 billion Grand Falls Dam project.

EDF, we can reveal, never bid for the project and their only entry into the mega dam scandal was a letter they wrote to the National Irrigation Authority, saying the company’s leadership had held a high-level meeting with President Ruto in Paris, where the tender was discussed and EDF should therefore be awarded the project.

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