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Opposition politicians have made economic recovery the centre-piece of their intended mass action.
They publicly decry the seemingly slow pace of economic recovery under the Kenya Kwanza government. They cite the insuperable hardships being experienced by most Kenyans as evidence of administrative incompetence.
What President William Ruto's administration may not have reckoned with is the level of indebtedness inherited from the Jubilee administration. In 2013 from Mwai Kibaki, former president Uhuru Kenyatta inherited a government that had weaned itself off external loans. He then went on a borrowing spree to the extent that he left public debt as a ratio of GDP at 69 per cent.
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