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High Court terms privatisation of Sh30b port terminal unconstitutional

Judges Alfred Mabea, Eric Ogolla and Thande Mugure of the High Court in Mombasa yesterday when they ruled that the Sh30 billion privatisation of Container Terminal Two at the Port of Mombasa was unconstitutional. [Kelvin Karani, Standard]

The state has suffered a major blow in efforts to privatise the Sh30 billion Container Terminal Two at the Port of Mombasa. 

Yesterday, High Court judges Erick Ogola, Alfred Mabea and Mugure Thande ruled that the amendments to section 16 (1) (a) of the Merchant Shipping Act were null and void.

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