Government needs to tame rising public debt, root out endemic corruption

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The 2017 election cycle has been unprecedented in many ways, with a historic annulment of the August 8 poll by the Supreme Court and an Opposition boycott of the subsequent October 26 re-run. For many months, Kenya’s businesses held their breath, waiting for the outcome of the presidential elections.

Just as businesses thought it was all over now that Uhuru Kenyatta was sworn in for a second term on November 28, Opposition leader Raila Odinga vowed to have himself sworn in as the ‘people’s president’.