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State restarts privatisation drive with sale of hotels

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Kabarnet Hotel is among the state-owned hotels up for sale. [Yvonne Chepkwony, Standard]

The government has restarted the sale of seven state-owned hotels in a move to ease pressure on the public purse and also earn some revenue from the privatisation.

The hotels are in addition to the 11 parastatals that the government recently said it planned to sell.

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