MPs want local shareholders in shipping company revealed

Parliamentary committee for Finance, Planning and Trade members, Nelson Gaichuhie, Vice Chairman Stephen Kirwa, and Abdullswamad Sheriff Nassir hands a lion carving to Fred Finn.

The suspicion surrounding the directorship of a company being fronted for the running of the lucrative second container terminal at the port of Mombasa has been cited as the cause of the uproar within the maritime industry.

Legislators, mostly from the coastal region, have protested the move by President Uhuru Kenyatta to push through an amendment to the Kenya Merchant Shipping Act, on who should be granted room to run the terminal.