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After selling off nation's assets on the hoof, let's sell passports for profit

President William Ruto addresses residents after the launch of the Sogoo-Melelo-Ololung'a Road on the second day of his tour of Narok County, May 7, 2025. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

I’m starting to look at Prezzo Bill Ruto with new respect. His administration has sold the Kenya Pipeline Corporation to Ugandans. Brits will soon have the levers that control Safaricom, which, incidentally, runs M-Pesa, our virtual economic backbone, on Chinese technology.

If that sounds like the State is being doled out to external actors, Prezzo Ruto is hell-bent on creating a vaunted National Infrastructure Fund, the miracle vehicle that would be used to mobilise resources for development.

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