Who’ll speak for Kenyan businesses paying the price of public debt load?

Revelations that Kenya’s debt repayments surpassed revenues must be a wakeup call. PHOTO | POOL

Fresh from the parliamentary Budget and Appropriations Committee, the proposed government Budget for 2023/2024 drew gasps, this week, at the emerging 8.8 percent increase on the final Budget of the last government.

The oft-spoken fear, even as the international financial institutions claim Kenya’s debt load is not that high when taken as a percentage of GDP, is that the government may move from a cashflow crisis into debt default.

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