How Rostam Azizi’s Acquisition of Nation Media Group Threatens to Turn East Africa’s Most Credible Press Into a Political Instrument — and Why William Ruto’s 2027 Re-election Bid May Be the Biggest Beneficiary
When AKFED sold its 54 per cent controlling stake in Nation Media Group to Rostam Aziz’s Taarifa Ltd, it handed a media empire spanning four countries to a man whose name is etched into Tanzania’s worst corruption scandal, whose gas empire in Mombasa was personally commissioned by President William Ruto, and who now owns the newsrooms that are supposed to hold that same government to account.
◾Taifa Mining & Civils Ltd has been awarded a TZS 29 billion construction deal ◾The costly redo comes after Mwanza regional authorities botched the project and wasted over TZS 13 billion taxpayers’ money to build a shoddy terminal building modelled on London’s Heathrow
