No projects to show for Sh1 trillion borrowings

Auditor General Nancy Gathungu, during the Senate Liaison Committee Retreat at EKA Hotel in Eldoret town, Uasin Gishu County on June 05, 2024.

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The government cannot show projects funded with Sh1.13 trillion of expensive loans it took in 11-and-a-half years to 2021, even as an audit reveals huge risks since the credit facilities were taken illegally.

Treasury took 13 expensive syndicated loans and sovereign bonds which the Auditor-General, in a special audit on utilisation of commercial loans in Kenya between July 2010 and December 2021, now reveals were used to settle recurrent expenditures in government, contrary to the law.

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