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Kenya currently spends more than half its tax earnings paying off debt

Suspended Treasury CS Henry Rotich.

When President Uhuru Kenyatta appointed Henry Rotich to the plum position of Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury and Planning, his father was elated.

He was confident that his son, an A-student of economics who graduated from the University of Nairobi with First Class Honours, had what it takes to be the custodian of the trillions of shillings taxpayers put in public coffers.

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