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Mbadi: Why we sold Safaricom shares to Vodacom, not the public

Treasury CS John Mbadi. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

The National Treasury has defended its plans to sell a 15 per cent stake in Safaricom to Vodacom while shunning the option of offloading the shareholding through a public offer that would have given local investors an opportunity to increase their ownership in the region’s most profitable company. 

For the past few days, the government has come under sharp criticism after it emerged that it would be reducing its shareholding in the telco.

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