Babu Owino uses Bible verse to attack China

Embakasi East Member of parliament (MP) Babu Owino has used the bible to criticize the growing debts to china saying this will grow to a Chinese take over.

He said in his tweet, ‘’They are here already’ referring to a bible verse (Deuteronomy 28 43) that reads: “Foreigners who live in your land will gain more and more power, while you gradually lose yours. They will have money to lend you, but you will have none to lend them. In the end they will be your rulers.”

Owino’s statement comes after the latest report by Kenya National Bureau of statistics (KNBS) revealed that Kenya’s debt to China has increased by 52.8 percent to Ksh478.6 billion in 2017 compared to Ksh313.1 billion in 2016.

Economists are also warning that the country could be indebted to the Asian dragon for decades.

David Ndii thinks there is no realistic means of repaying the loans and that the country is already in debt distress as, especially to “ruthless” China.

His fears are premised on the widening funding gap where local revenues are only able to cover about two-thirds of the national budget.