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Safaricom sale: Let State show its hand

Safaricom  headquaters, Nairobi.[FILE,Standard]

The proposed sale of 15 per cent of the government’s shares in telecom giant Safaricom has sparked a heated and emotional national debate.

Add politics of 2027, and it gets murkier. Let’s try to go through the fog of misinformation, pseudo-facts and truths to unveil a sale that could be a pace setter in privatisation and government disinvestment.  

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