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President Uhuru Kenyatta arrives to attend The Queen's Dinner during The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), at Buckingham Palace in London on April 19, 2018. [File, Reuters]
Kenya's government is failing to pay many of its contractors on time, as corruption drains funds for legitimate projects from state coffers, suppliers and officials say.
The late payments are in turn hitting the financial sector, where non-performing loans have jumped this year to their highest level in more than a decade.
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