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🧵The Supreme Court issued its judgment last week on the SGR procurement case, which was first filed way back in 2014. It was not good. A quick thread summarizing (or you can read the decision yourself here: okoamombasa.org/en/litigation-…) 
There were 3 key issues to be resolved: admissibility of evidence (mostly extensive documents obtained by the litigants via whistleblowers); environmental concerns and whether the Government followed proper procurement procedures.
On admissibility of evidence: The Supreme Court agreed with the Court of Appeal, finding that the documents were "illegally obtained." An especially painful finding, given that we've been trying to obtain some of these docs "legally" for the past four years ...
1/ With the High Court ruling this week that the Kenyan govt must release the #SGR contracts, we wanted to respond briefly to this article from @TC_Africa, and why it shouldn’t put Coast at ease. A thread: theconversation.com/mombasa-port-h…
2/ The @TC_Africa piece says that Mombasa Port is not at risk if Kenya defaults on the #SGR loan. We’re not convinced for a couple of reasons. First, the analysis focuses on one very narrow point: the Auditor General’s apparent mislabeling of @Kenya_Ports as a borrower and ...
3/ … the definition of sovereign immunity. Fair enough. But despite this analysis, we can’t be 100% sure that KPA’s assets aren’t at risk without seeing the contracts. The article doesn’t tell us what happens if Kenya defaults. We simply don’t know & that’s very much by design.
