Kenyan Gov’t Terminated Multi-Billion High Grand Falls PPP Deal
President William Ruto’s administration has discontinued a Ksh337 billion agreement with a private business to build the High Grand Falls.
The multibillion-dollar project is located on the border between Kitui and Tharaka Nithi Counties.
The High Grand Falls project aims to increase the country’s energy generation capacity and agricultural irrigation by building an ultra-modern, large-scale multipurpose dam.
The multibillion-shilling dam was scheduled to be built following a privately launched proposal by a UK-based infrastructure investment firm.
High Grand Falls PPP proposal by GBM Limited UK terminated after an evaluation of Project Development Report concluded that the PDR failed to meet a number of requirements.
— Pesa Wall (@PesaWall) July 11, 2025
The project was estimated to cost Sh337 Billion. pic.twitter.com/O2MQxBtsie
However, according to the National Treasury’s Project Progress and Status Report dated July 5, 2025, the government allowed its termination on July 2, this year, in accordance with Section 43 of the Public Private Partnership Act.
The project idea was initially accepted in May 2023 to proceed to a feasibility study.
🟩UK engineer chosen to study Kenya’s High Grand Falls hydro dam
— Construction Today Kenya🇰🇪 (@Constafrica) September 28, 2023
Kenya has signed a deal with British consulting engineer GBM to carry out a feasibility study for the construction of a dam in central Kenya, Reuters reports.
The project, under discussion since 2009, will harness… pic.twitter.com/ueTyKl5RBe
The feasibility study was then completed, and a report was submitted to the PPP Committee for approval.
Nonetheless, the Committee’s analysis of the report revealed that the feasibility study failed to meet numerous essential standards under the PPP Act.
As a result, the committee recommended its dismissal.
Despite the termination, the Committee authorized the UK firm to revise its feasibility assessment before resubmission.
Other major projects that have been canceled include the Ksh464 billion Nairobi-Mombasa road project between the Kenya National Highways Authority and Everstrong Capital, a US-based infrastructure company.
In its examination, the PPP Committee recommended that the project be suspended since the corporation failed to meet the required criteria in submitting the feasibility study report.
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“It was determined that it did not meet the relevant criteria and should be abandoned per Section 43 of the PPP Act,” the PPP Committee suggested.
“The proposal may, however, be resubmitted to the Committee for a fresh determination.”
Despite rejecting numerous privately launched plans, the Committee authorized the construction of the 175-kilometer Nairobi-Nakuru roadway.
President Ruto recently announced that building on the highway was set to begin in August of this year and will be overseen by KeNHA.
Kenyan Gov’t Terminated Multi-Billion High Grand Falls PPP Deal
