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AG, Treasury CS Mbadi to be grilled by MPs over Safaricom sale

National Treasury Cabinet Secretary before the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning at Bunge Towers, Nairobi, on November 18, 2025. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]  

Attorney General Dorcas Oduor and National Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi are set to appear before lawmakers on Tuesday to defend the government’s controversial Sh244 billion sale of a stake in telecoms giant Safaricom to South Africa's Vodacom, as a major parliamentary probe into the transaction begins. 

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