Kenya Kwanza queries state deal with foreign firm on three ports

Containers at the port of Mombasa. [Gideon Maundu, Standard]

President Uhuru Kenyatta has been put in a spot over a plan to engage a foreign company at Mombasa, Lamu, and Kisumu ports. The Kenya Kwanza coalition termed clandestine a plan to bring on board the Dubai Port World from the United Arab Emirates at the three ports, saying it amounted to illegally mortgaging the state facilities to a foreign country.

In a statement read by ANC party leader Musalia Mudavadi in Nairobi yesterday, Kenya Kwanza claimed the deal breached the Constitution, as it did not get Cabinet approval or go through public participation.