Kenya’s debt trap deeper than thought

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National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani during the launch of Economic Survey Report 2021 on September 9, 2021. NMG PHOTO

Last week, in a presentation to the Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Budget, the Controller of Budget unleashed the bombshell that Treasury has been borrowing from the local market to repay foreign debt.

This is a reality some of us foresaw coming when we looked at the trajectory debt accumulation had taken but we never wished it to come.

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