State bets on Safaricom stake sale to finance infrastructure

 Safaricom PLC headquarters in Westlands, Nairobi.

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The Treasury plans to spend Sh204 billion raised from the partial sale of government shares in Safaricom exclusively on commercially viable infrastructure projects.

Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi told a joint sitting of the National Assembly’s Finance and National Planning, and Public Debt and Privatisation committees on Tuesday that the government has incorporated the National Infrastructure Fund as a limited liability company to manage the proceeds.

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