Safaricom CEO Peter Ndegwa during a past event. The Kenyan government will receive a cumulative Sh244.5 billion by selling a 15 per cent stake in Safaricom Plc to Vodafone Kenya [File, Standard] In December 2025, Safaricom announced a major restructuring where Vodafone Kenya Limited, through a 100 per cent buyout of its stakes by South Africa’s Vodacom Group Plc, will acquire a 15 per cent stake from the Government of Kenya to make Vodacom the majority controller with 55 per cent per cent ownership, while the government retains 20 per cent and the public 25 per cent. The Kenyan government will…
Author: By Mukoma Munyuthe
Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi during a one on one interview with The Standard group. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard] On December 26, 2025, Prime Cabinet Secretary (PCS) Musalia Mudavadi proposed that Kenya hold a referendum alongside the 2027 general election, alleging that Kenya was in a referendum moment. The reasons that he gave to support he proposes that it is meant to solve the crisis of boundary delimitation, the census deadlock, relook at counties (names, number, wards), resolve NADCO issues (such as entrenching the NCDF, introduce a Senate Oversight Fund and Ward Fund), and bolstering theunified face of Kenya in government by formalsing…