Wednesday, October 22, 2024 – The Senate Committee has finalized its report on the Adani deal to take over the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) and is ready for tabling in the Senate.
This was revealed by Kiambu
Senator Karungo wa Thang'wa, who is chairperson of the Senate Committee on
Roads, Transport and Housing.
Speaking during an
interview, Karungo Thang’wa revealed that the preliminary conclusion of
the committee was that the deal went against all the prescriptions of the law
especially the PPP Act.
As a result, Thang’wa noted that
the committee had therefore come up with several recommendations including his
very own three that would be featured in the final report.
To begin with, the Kiambu
senator noted that the government needed to incorporate the Swiss Challenge
before the process even kicked off.
“The Swiss challenge is that
whenever a government receives any privately initiated proposal, you make it
public and ask people, do you have a better one than this? If no one has a better one than that, then we can go into the process and look into
it,” he clarified.
Acknowledging the successful
countrywide public participation process for the impeachment of Rigathi
Gachagua as deputy president, Thang’wa noted that the committee would make sure
that the deal would undergo a public participation process to include every
Kenyan in the decision-making.
For the committee’s third
recommendation, Thang’wa said that committee members would be recommending the prosecution of the directors of key entities involved in the deal.
“We are also going to say that
the EACC must investigate a few officers like the KAA. The bottom line is it’s
not above board,” he concluded.
The Kenyan DAILY POST
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