Ruto’s NSE plan hit as private investors buy out top firms

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Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) trading floor. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Private investors are pouncing on Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE)-listed firms and then removing them from the bourse, dealing a blow to President William Ruto administration’s plan to increase the number of listed firms at the Nairobi bourse.

Bamburi Cement, one of NSE’s iconic blue-chip firms, is the latest target of private investors and will be delisted if Tanzania-based conglomerate Amsons Group’s Sh23.59 billion bid sails through.

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