Parliament orders probe of rocket launching centre deal

Parliament has directed a probe into the 1962 agreement between the Government and San Marco Space Centre at the Coast after it emerged that the multi-billion dollar rocket-launching centre was not financially beneficial to the country.

The centre is also used in satellite tracing and control of orbiting activities that are said to mint billions of dollars annually but the pre-independence agreement signed with the Italian government does not favour Kenya, the House heard yesterday.