Lorénzo

Instead of sharing the contracts, the President chose to read to us the figures for the old and new Rironi–Mau Summit deals. Sh249 billion under the French company. Sh191 billion under the Chinese company. Sh58 billion “saved”, he says. Yet when the French deal was signed in 2020, the then Transport CS put it at Sh160 billion. The Standard later reported Sh180 billion. And the toll for a car, one way, was about Sh775. Under the new deal, the same trip costs up to about Sh1,400. Unaona? Sasa tuko kwa “nani alisema nini”, yet a public contract could have resolved all this. The clappers clapped. But how do we check figures we are only allowed to hear? If the deal is good, publish it. Good deals do not need to be selectively read out at a podium.