{"id":454,"date":"2026-09-16T08:45:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T08:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blazepointmedia.com\/?p=454"},"modified":"2026-09-16T08:46:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T08:46:28","slug":"kenyas-high-court-has-declared-the-sale-of-safaricoms-15-stake-to-vodacom-null-and-void","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blazepointmedia.com\/?p=454","title":{"rendered":"Kenya\u2019s High Court has declared the sale of Safaricom\u2019s 15% stake to Vodacom null and void"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kenya\u2019s High Court has declared the sale of Safaricom\u2019s 15% stake to Vodacom null and void<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The court ruled that the divestiture contravened the Constitution and the law and ordered the 15% shares to be restored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vodacom had already paid for the 15% Safaricom stake, and the transaction closed on June 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vodacom has since said that it will appeal the Kenyan High Court decision that nullified its purchase of the Government\u2019s 15% stake in Safaricom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It will also seek a stay of the ruling as the appeal is heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"705\" height=\"450\" data-id=\"455\" src=\"https:\/\/blazepointmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1002162225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blazepointmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1002162225.jpg 705w, https:\/\/blazepointmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1002162225-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya\u2019s High Court has declared the sale of Safaricom\u2019s 15% stake to Vodacom null and void The court ruled that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blazepointmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blazepointmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blazepointmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blazepointmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blazepointmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blazepointmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458,"href":"https:\/\/blazepointmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blazepointmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blazepointmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blazepointmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blazepointmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}