Ruto secretly selling Kenyan airspace to foreigners; Kalonzo
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Kalonzo claims President Ruto on a mission to sell the Kenyan airspace to foreign powers through climate deals
Kalonzo claims President Ruto on a mission to sell the Kenyan airspace to foreign powers through climate deals.
Speaking in Machakos on Thursday, Kalonzo claimed Ruto’s Climate Change agenda had a sinister motive.
The deals Ruto was signing deals could haunt Kenyans in the near future according to the Wiper Party leader.
He added that Ruto was eager to hide these agreements so they would seem beneficial to the nation, and that they were being signed without the public’s knowledge.
In particular, Kalonzo claimed that Ruto flew out to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai to seal deals with foreign nations in an effort to sell the country’s airspace.
“Kenyans are worse off now than even last year, let us be careful. Let alone KICC where your offices are, or KPC which is a very important national strategic and security installation, they have even begun selling air,” Kalonzo alleged.
Kalonzo’s remarks centred around government plans to privatise several parastatals, including the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC), the Kenya Literature Bureau (KLB), National Oil Corporation of Kenya (NOCK), and Kenya Pipeline Company Limited (KPC).
Kalonzo also faulted the Members of Parliament for passing the Climate Change (Amendments) Act 2023 and demanded a review of the enacted law.
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“Carbon credit is the next frontier of immense corruption, where you are selling our airspace, that one, how you passed those acts of Climate Change. You have to revisit,” Kalonzo said.
“The country’s oxygen, the carbon sink, our forests, have been taken, and if you doubt me, and MPs if you doubt me, look at the Climate Change Act 2023 as amended afresh, you will notice our air is being sold without even our knowledge, because it is now carbon trading all over the world.”
On September 1, President William Ruto assented to the Climate Change (Amendment) Act, 2023, aligned with the Africa Climate Summit and Africa Climate Week held in Nairobi.
The Act, built upon the foundations laid by the Climate Change Act 2016, aims to push Kenya towards realising its obligations under the Paris Agreement. It also introduced provisions for the regulation of and participation in carbon markets.
It further provided for the establishment of a carbon registry that would be accessible to the public with registers detailing carbon credit projects and the amount of carbon credits issued or transferred from Kenya.
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