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Social business model can save State firms

The recent clamour around privatisation after the approval of the sale of government stakes in leading hotels in Nairobi is neither new nor novel.

Privatisation in Kenya started in the early 1990s after government identified 207 non-strategic State-owned entities (SOEs) that were to be privatised. About 33 strategic entities were to be retained, but restructured.

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