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Cost of State emergency loans spikes on higher CBK base rate

Controller of Budget Margaret Nyakang'o. [File, Standard]

The high cost of borrowing following successive hikes of the Central Bank Rate (CBR) has seen the interest rates on emergency loans that the National Treasury takes from the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK nearly double.

Interest rates on the government's overdraft facility, through which Treasury borrows directly from CBK to meet pressing financial needs, including debt repayment, increased by 87 per cent over the financial year to June 2024, according to a new report by the Controller of Budget (COB) Margaret Nyakang'o.

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