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Former Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i.[File, Standard]
Former Interior Cabinet Secretary and presidential hopeful Fred Matiang'i has accused President William Ruto's administration of quietly giving away Kenya's vast mineral wealth through opaque concession agreements, challenging the government to publish every mining licence and reveal the beneficiaries of what he described as secretive deals.
Speaking during an interview with The Standard, Matiang'i claimed Kenya was sitting on enormous mineral wealth capable of transforming the economy and lifting millions out of poverty, but alleged that a lack of transparency in the allocation of mining concessions was denying citizens and host communities their rightful share of the country's natural resources.
"Publish every mining licence. Publish every concession agreement. Tell Kenyans who owns what and under what terms those resources were allocated," Matiang'i said.
