Why State must annul Kenya Ports Authority concession process

On Wednesday, during a key Kenya Ports Authority function, acting Transport and Infrastructure Cabinet Secretary James Macharia went off his written script.

He used the occasion, an annual luncheon which KPA uses to thank its key customers and update them on developments at the port, to assure his audience that the Government would ensure the ongoing search for a concessionaire to manage the port’s second container terminal is done in a manner that is ‘transparent and above board’.