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What it would take you to repay Sh5 trillion Kenya owes

Journalists take pictures inside the railway tunnel at Ngong Kajiado County on 25th September 2018.

Can you imagine working for eight months without pay? Well, that is exactly how long it would take all the 45 million Kenyans to toil to settle the country’s debt.

This is according to a damning analysis by Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) Kenya released yesterday. The debt situation does not include the latest to be signed by President Uhuru Kenyatta today in China.

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