The Ruto administration’s deals with shadowy organisations have raised red flags, with the potential of evolving into costly blunders for the taxpayer.
A shadowy Belgian foundation, allegedly funded by elderly Jewish philanthropists, has dangled a ‘grant’ for Malawi twice the size of the country’s national budget, but critics doubt the promised bonanza will materialise. Now amaBhungane has managed to question Bridgin’s elusive founder – and th.
Both the State of the Nation Address (Sona) and the Budget Statement have not acknowledged the Bridgin funding, raising questions of whether government has had a change of heart on the deal. Two former Cabinet ministers have described this omission as strange and an “indication of lost confidence in the agreement”. But Finance Minister Sosten