Kenya Advances SGR Extension and New Meter System Amidst Mau Summit Rd Funding Dispute - November 2025

President William Ruto has announced that the extension of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) from Naivasha, Kenya, to Kampala, Uganda, will begin in early 2026. This joint project, which will extend to Rwanda and DR Congo, aims to bolster regional trade. In another development, Kenya Power launched an automated meter reading system using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology to improve billing accuracy and efficiency. This initiative is meant to minimize human error from manual data entry. Meanwhile, a legal challenge has emerged over funding for the Rironi–Mau Summit Highway project. An Advocate of the High Court is calling on the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) to stop the government from using Ksh72 billion in pension funds from the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) for the project.