A payment subcontractor with a hundred-thousand-shilling starting capital and a director shared with that same vendor now quietly pockets a fixed cut of every shilling paid to a sick Kenyan’s hospital.
As Safaricom’s board chair fields questions over a data surveillance scandal that has drawn international condemnation, his parallel career as managing partner of the law firm representing the Adani Group and as President Ruto’s self-described ‘Mr Fix It’ raises a governance question Kenya’s capital markets regulators have so far declined to ask: whose interests does Adil Khawaja actually serve when he sits at the head of Safaricom’s table?
Under the contract’s payment structure, the monthly disbursements will progressively increase from Sh500 million to a peak of Sh1.065 billion between 2028 and 2032 – representing one of the most lucrative government contracts in Kenya’s history.
As Kenyan transitions its healthcare system from the National Health Insurance Fund to the Social Health Authority (SHA), including the Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF) and Healthcare Fund, a staggering deal worth hundreds of billions is unfolding, with a web of elites poised to reap the benefits. Among those set to profit are President , […]
