Deputy President William Ruto’s Kenya Kwanza now alleges that President Uhuru Kenyatta secretly sold the ports of Lamu, Mombasa and Kisumu to foreigners during the birthday of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
In a statement dated Wednesday, June 29, and shared by the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) Director of Communications, Wanjohi Githae, Kenya Kwanza alleged that Uhuru penned the deal to auction the port during his secret trips to United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the final deal sealed during Odinga’s birthday party held in Mombasa.
Ruto’s faction claimed that Uhuru signed off on the agreement that will see the Dubai-based company take over operations at the three 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 epitomises 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.
They further poked holes at how the President found it right to hand the operations of the port to a foreign entity in a bid to secure their interests.
“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.
The second in command further challenged President Uhuru Kenyatta to make public any process and procedure under the Public-Private partnership Act that was used to make the agreement.
