
Our Journos are not being incisive in researching analysing and documenting this Angloleasing biashara...
Rink : This is better Anglo-Leasing-payouts-get-House-teams-nod = Sh1.4 birrionThe Budget and Appropriations Committee (who sits here) ?
and its counterpart on Finance and Trade....
appeared to agree with Attorney-General Githu Muigai on the payments in the face of accrued interest in their report tabled in the National Assembly on Tuesday.
The proposed payments are of two debts amounting to Sh1.4 billion awarded to First Mercantile Securities Corporation and Universal Satspace LLC.
Yesterday, National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich and Solicitor-General Njee Muturi attended a joint committee sitting where he explained why the government must pay the money.
Mr Rotich clarified that the amount in question is Sh1.4 billion and not Sh125 billion as has been reported.Seme MP James Nyikal said those responsible for the mess must be exposed even if Kenya pays.
Dagoretti South MP Dennis Kariuki said Kenya risks being downgraded on credit rating internationally if it fails to honour the payments.
THE NUMBERSKenya signed Sh56bn dealsAll 18 Anglo-Leasing contracts signed between 1997 and 2004 amounted to Sh56.2 billionOf the 18, four were cancelled (Sh18.9 billion), three were delivered (Sh6.795 billion) and 11 partially finished (Sh30.56 bn)
β’ Kenya is trying to recover money from six of the 11 (Sh16.6 billion). Five others are still active; two of these were paid by 2012, one is still disputed and two were subject of court cases in London (2013) and Geneva (2012).
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