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SAFARICOM’S SILENCE: How Kenya’s Crown Jewel Surrendered Its Boardroom to Johannesburg, and Why the Telco Fought Harder for the Deal Than Against It

Nairobi’s High Court spent three months protecting a transaction that Safaricom itself made little effort to challenge. On June 26, 2026, the Court of Appeal lifted conservatory orders that had frozen the government’s planned sale of a 15 percent stake in Safaricom Plc to Vodacom Group. The decision cleared the way for Vodacom to assume […]

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Forged Chinese Papers, A Cheaper Bidder Buried, and a Convicted Contemnor at the Helm: Inside KeNHA’s Sh3 Billion Masara–Muhuru Bay Heist

A road agency that has paid out billions for its own contractual sins, run for seven months by a man the High Court had just convicted of contempt, handed a Sh3 billion tarmac contract to an outfit with no comparable highway pedigree on the strength of a Chinese contractor’s name it stole and a stamp it forged. The whistleblower told them in March. They waited until a judge was watching in May.

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THE BETIKA MACHINE: Rigged Bets, Ghost Invoices, and a Tax Evasion Empire Spanning Three Continents

A whistleblower dossier now in the hands of investigators in Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo lays bare how East Africa’s biggest betting platform allegedly built a continent-wide financial crime operation from Nairobi’s Parklands. Investigations are active. The right of reply was sent. The silence that followed spoke louder than any denial could.

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America’s Reluctant Guest: How Kenya’s Most Powerful Finance Boss Fled a Contempt Conviction, Allegedly Shielded a Solar Company from Tax, and Is Now Hiding in the United States Behind a Medical Excuse the Courts Have Already Rejected

Charles Korgoren Kerich, for nearly a decade the most indispensable technocrat at Nairobi City Hall, is now a convicted contempt fugitive cooling his heels in America while Kenyan courts have issued an arrest warrant, a German investor suffered alleged death threats and a Sh52,000 credit card fraud linked to his business associates, and Sh65.3 million in cash was unearthed from under the nose of his departmental colleague. His story is Kenya’s impunity problem distilled into one man’s spectacular flight from accountability.

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SAFARICOM’S SILENCE: How Kenya’s Crown Jewel Surrendered Its Boardroom to Johannesburg, and Why the Telco Fought Harder for the Deal Than Against It

Nairobi’s High Court spent three months protecting a transaction that Safaricom itself made little effort to challenge. On June 26, 2026, the Court of Appeal lifted conservatory orders that had frozen the government’s planned sale of a 15 percent stake in Safaricom Plc to Vodacom Group. The decision cleared the way for Vodacom to assume […]

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