Ruto alledges Uhuru secretly sold Mombasa Port and other two ports
3 min readRuto alledges Uhuru secretly sold Mombasa Port to a Dubai-based company during his trips to United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Deputy President William Ruto has now alleged that President Uhuru Kenyatta secretly sold the ports of Lamu, Mombasa, and Kisumu to foreigners.
The Kenya Kwanza presidential candidate claimed in a statement on Wednesday, June 29, that Uhuru drafted the agreement to auction the port during his covert trips to the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
According to him, the final agreement was signed at Raila Odinga’s birthday party in Mombasa.
The statement was shared by the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) Director of Communications, Wanjohi Githae.
He argued that the deal that will see the Dubai-based company take over operations at the three ports.
Ruto challenged Uhuru to explain to Kenyans why he would risk handing over national assets to a foreign entity in a bid to secure personal interests.
Ruto alledges Uhuru secretly sold Kenya’s 3 ports
“Today, we reveal to Kenyans a clandestine plot by the outgoing Handshake Government of Uhuru and Raila to illegally mortgage our Ports of Mombasa, Lamu, and Kisumu, to a foreign country.”
“In a secret deal under the guise of an Economic Cooperation Agreement with the United Arab Emirates, and which epitomizes grand corruption; Uhuru has assented to a rip-off that will see a foreign privately registered entity – Dubai Port World FZE – take over these key national infrastructural assets,” the statement read in part.
“Indeed, why would a government with only less than five weeks to leave office hurriedly and secretly auction the operations, development, redevelopment, and management of all our ports to a foreign entity?”
“Under the ill-disguised Economic Cooperation Agreement supposedly signed on March 1, 2022, by the CS Treasury, Ukur Yatani, Kenya will cede ownership and control of not only the three ports but also supporting infrastructure at the ports and in the hinterland,” added the Kenya Kwanza statement.
“Kenyans must also know whether the procurement of the company was a government-to-government agreement and, if so, why section 4(2)(f) of the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act, 2015 did not apply.”
“From the shortcuts, we have exposed; the auction of our ports looks like corruption, it is swimming like corruption, it is shouting corruption, and it is certainly corruption,” argued Kenya Kwanza.
Ruto questioned the credibility of the Dubai-based firm, challenging the government to release the details of the firm’s owners, the cost of the deal, and other companies that applied for the same tender.
He stated that the deal violated the constitution and Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act which directs that such agreements ought to be transparent, competitive, cost-effective, and equitable and should involve Parliament, the Cabinet, and county governments.
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