![]() ![]() This meant that by the financial year 2021–2022, the debt servicing was at 65% of the total national budget. The CBK reported that the government had accumulated a total debt portfolio of KSh6.1 trillion. Eight years later, in April 2022, the debt had quadrupled to KSh8.4 trillion. Kibaki’s outstanding debt was brought forward to Jand the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), publicly acknowledged this debt in its report. Flickr/Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office. The corresponding poverty level to the debt was at 38%. By the time, he was leaving State House, in 2012, in which time he was president of a government of national unity, from 2008, with Raila Odinga as Prime Minister, that debt was manageable and traceable. Since then, we have not been able to achieve that percentage growth. Between 2003–2007, the height of Kibaki’s reign, the economy boomed at an all-time best of seven per cent. The true nature of the debt is clouded and shrouded in a labyrinthine maze of unscrupulous borrowing deliberately made so, so that ordinary mortals may not make head or tail of the trail of the staggering debt.īy the time, President Mwai Kibaki was leaving government, Kenya had a public debt portfolio of KSh2.37 trillion. The bewildering debt of trillion of shillings that now envelope Kenya’s national debt has so far been downplayed by the government and not many Kenyans may appreciate just how much the country could in the red. The bombshell was not in acknowledging what’s already public knowledge the soaring, spiralling and uncontrollable debt appetite by the government, but in the optics and mechanics of how that debt has been accumulated, who possibly has been accumulating it, who has been enabling the insatiable borrowing, why the debt has been accumulated and what for and how the public so far, has been duped into thinking that the borrowing of hundred of billions of shillings in their name, is for the public good. IUCN.Two weekends ago, presidential aspirant Jimi Wanjigi dropped a bombshell: Through a power point presentation, for close to an hour, in front of local and international press, Jimi painted a grim but sadly, a true picture of Kenya’s outlandish and overwhelming public debt. " Diomedea Sanfordi: Birdlife International." 2018. " Adaptive Value Of Same-Sex Pairing In Laysan Albatross." Proceedings Of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. " Successful Same-Sex Pairing In Laysan Albatross." Biology Letters, vol. " Evidence For Olfactory Search In Wandering Albatross, Diomedea Exulans." Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences, vol. " Seabirds Use Their Sense Of Smell To Find Food." Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. ![]() ![]() " Birds Can Smell, And One Scientist Is Leading The Charge To Prove It." Audubon, 2014. " Courtship Behaviour Of The Wandering Albatross Diomedea Exulans At Bird Island, South Georgia." Marine Ornithology, vol. " Evidence That Birds Sleep In Mid-Flight." Nature Communications, vol. " Experimental Verification Of Dynamic Soaring In Albatrosses." Journal Of Experimental Biology, vol. " Largest wingspan for a bird species (living)." Guinness World Records. BirdLife International. " Thalassarche melanophris." The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22698375A132643647. Accessed on 08 July 2022.īirdLife International. " Diomedea exulans." The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22698305A132640680. Accessed on 08 July 2022.īirdLife International. " Diomedea dabbenena." The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T22728364A132657527. Accessed on 08 July 2022. ![]()
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