DOCK workers have threatened to strike unless plans to privatise the port of Mombasa are explained to them. The Dock Workers Union said a "cartel" of private investors wants to run three berths. In a statement issued on Sunday, union chairman Jeffer Kitti called on President Uhuru Kenyatta and Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho not to accept the Build Operate and Transfer plans private shipping companies are pushing for. “There is a return of the cartels of 2008-09 who wanted to take away the running of berths number 11 to 14. This time they are eyeing berths number 20, 21 and 23,” read the...
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