2017, President Uhuru’s worst financial year

Managing Director SGS Kenya Limited Albert Stockell presents the ISO 9001:2015 Certificate for the kenya national bureau of statistics to National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich during the 2018 economic survey report and ISO 9001:2015 launch at the KICC on April, 25 2018. [David Gichuru/Standard]

NAIROBI, KENYA: Kenya’s economy grew 4.9 per cent last year, its worst performance since President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Jubilee Party swept into power five years ago promising growth of between seven and 10 per cent.

However, a debilitating drought, prolonged electioneering period and reduced uptake of credit by the private sector might have conspired to deny the President the opportunity to sign off his first term in office in style.