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Another rough patch? Financials show Uchumi may lack cash to pay short-term debts

Kenya: When he rose to respond to a question asked by a business journalist on an alleged go-slow by about 3,000 suppliers over non-payment, the man who got Uchumi out of the jaws of receivership and insolvency looked agitated.

The question was thrown at Jonathan Ciano, the receiver manager turned chief executive of Uchumi, in the presence of the National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich, during a media briefing last week.

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