Debt repayment eats up 67.5pc of taxes in first quarter

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Kenya spent an equivalent of two-thirds of tax revenues to service mounting obligations to domestic and external creditors in the first quarter of this financial year, official data shows.

Public debt repayment costs hit a record Sh347.22 billion for the three months ended September, according to exchequer statistics published by Treasury Cabinet Secretary Njuguna Ndung’u last Friday.

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