Friday, January 31, 2025 – President William Ruto may have played Kenyans like fools on the controversial Adani deals.
This is after it emerged that
the president may actually not have cancelled Adani deals to revamp the Jomo
Kenyatta International Airport and the Kenya Electricity Transmission Company
Limited (KETRACO).
Speaking during the State of the
Nation address on November 21, 2024, in Parliament, Ruto announced that after
much consideration and listening to Kenyans, he had decided to cancel both the
KETRACO and JKIA deals over Adani's corruption allegations by the US.
However, concerns have been
raised that there is no evidence that the deals were indeed withdrawn.
While giving their submissions
on the KETRACO-Adani case filed by Kalonzo Musyoka and other leaders
challenging the deal, lawyer Ndegwa Njiru raised the alarm that there has been
no further evidence that the deals were canceled since Ruto's pronouncements.
"As we stand before your
lordship, there is no evidence other than mere presidential pronouncements made
in Parliament that the deal was canceled. There is no affidavit before your
lordship indicating to that effect abreasting the court on the status of that
contract," Lawyer Ndegwa Njiru pointed out.
Ndegwa revealed that his team
does not have faith in the deal because it was made in secrecy from its onset
and they read malice even in the alleged withdrawal.
"We take judicial notice
that this is a matter that was done in pure concealment and we do not read any
good faith on the part of the respondents," the lawyer continued.
Also in the hearing was lawyers
Kalonzo Musyoka and Eugene Wamalwa who had filed a petition at the High Court
to challenge the deal.
The lawyers requested that the
petition would not disappear and waste away in the cancellation despite the
deal's cancellation.
The Kenyan DAILY POST.
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