Keep costly pension out of Hustler Fund

The government should rethink the commitment it has made to contribute to the pension for people borrowing from the Hustler Fund, a State-backed platform issuing short-term loans.

While a noble idea, the policy risks raising government expenditure by billions of shillings per annum and is at odds with the tight fiscal space that has seen the executive order a budget cut to the tune of Sh300 billion.