Tata Chemicals ordered out of Kenya by president
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Kenya's President William Ruto orders India's Tata Chemicals to quit, saying it has failed to benefit the country.
  • dbtng@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    I assume this means that Tata has fallen behind on their bribes. That’s what it usually means when you see the law getting enforced on this scale. Tata is a huge company, so fuk them, but they may have found the ask a bit steep, or even unethical?

    To an uninformed outsider just consuming propaganda, this sounds like a nice, clean, and logical escalation of an ongoing enforcement effort.
    https://www.kenyanews.go.ke/joho-suspends-tata-chemicals-magadi-mining-operations-over-non-compliance/

    “Joho said that despite these engagements, several critical compliance issues remain unresolved, including lack of a clear mineral beneficiation and value addition strategy, outstanding royalty reconciliation and payment obligations, insufficient export reporting and reconciliation, poor implementation of Community Development Agreements (CDA), inadequate employment and skills transfer plan for Kenyan citizens, weak procurement of local goods and services, and environmental compliance shortfalls.”

    I definitely see a subtext that someone did not get their bribes. Wikipedia says Joho is a political ‘kingpin’, that he finances the party he’s a member of, and he has been accused of both vote rigging and running drugs. Such men live on bribes. Big fat bribes, not the small stuff.