Strategies for SMEs to weather disease

The coronavirus pandemic, though not the making of any particular person, could not have come at a worse time for the Kenyan small and medium enterprises (SMEs) which have received the short end of the stick for the last three years amid economic slowdown.

This is due to political activities in 2017-2018, strained access to finance underpinned on interest cap and heavy government local borrowing, accumulated pending bills by national and county government and taxation among a plethora of challenges.