MPs launch probe into State Sh244b Safaricom stake sale


Safaricom Headquarters on Waiyaki Way in Nairobi. [File, Standard]

The National Assembly will on Monday kick off a multi-sector inquiry into the government’s controversial sale of a 15 per cent stake in telecoms giant Safaricom to South Africa’s Vodacom, summoning a wide range of industry, legal and civil society actors to testify.

Two parliamentary committees will conduct a nine-day series of hearings to scrutinise the transaction.

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