Yatani: The man to administer bitter financial pill to tame Coronavirus

Finance Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani speaks at the Treasury, on Monday, April 6,2020, during an interview with the Standard on the state of Kenya’s economy during Coronavirus pandemic. [Collins Kweyu, Standard]

“This is a human crisis,” says the Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury Ukur Yatani as we settle down for an interview in his office at the National Treasury Building in Nairobi.

It is a crisis he has personally tried to gird himself against; he has a mask on his face and gloves on his hands.