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Public debt burden still a powder keg in Kenya

Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States once said, "I place the economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared." This truism holds true today as it did then. An introspection of Kenya would reveal the daily diet of outrage evident in the polity to have its genesis in overwhelming public debt.

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