{"id":220469,"date":"2026-01-14T22:46:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-mbadi-says-vodacom-deal-offers-better-value-than-nse-share-price\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T22:46:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:46:04","slug":"kenya-mbadi-says-vodacom-deal-offers-better-value-than-nse-share-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-mbadi-says-vodacom-deal-offers-better-value-than-nse-share-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Mbadi Says Vodacom Deal Offers Better Value Than NSE Share Price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Mbadi told a joint parliamentary committee that the terms offered to shareholders are more attractive than what investors would receive by trading the stock on the open market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">He explained that the government&#8217;s decision to avoid a second Safaricom IPO was driven by concerns over market saturation, pricing risks and the need to attract foreign currency inflows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Speaking on the rationale behind the move, Mbadi noted that the government is already preparing to introduce another major state asset,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601140373.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mbadi told a joint parliamentary committee that the terms offered to shareholders are more attractive than what investors would receive by trading the stock on the open market. He explained that the government&#8217;s decision to avoid a second Safaricom IPO was driven by concerns over market saturation, pricing risks and the need to attract foreign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":220470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,7012,4688,430,30500,257,13803,10997,8689,7294,254,16639],"class_list":["post-220469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deal","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-mbadi","tag-news","tag-nse","tag-offers","tag-price","tag-share","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vodacom"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}