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Go for cheap loans for Kenyans’ sake

Eight years go, for every Sh1,000 Kenya earned from its exports, former President Mwai Kibaki’s government paid foreign creditors only Sh18. Today, the National Treasury Cabinet Secretary is paying as much as Sh173. And this does not even include principal payments.

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