In Kenya President William Ruto argues that he was handed a dismal set of public accounts by predecessor Uhuru Kenyatta marked by expensive infrastructure projects and a steeply rising debt burden...
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President Uhuru Kenyatta's government proposed a similar scheme but it was challenged in the courts and then quietly abandoned...
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Former President Uhuru Kenyatta had appeared intent on retiring from politics...
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Plans by Ruto's predecessor Uhuru Kenyatta to introduce a 1...
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That was three years after he was dismissed along with finance minister Henry Rotich from his post as principal treasury secretary in Uhuru Kenyatta's administration...
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That is more likely than a repeat of the 2018 'handshake' between Odinga and President Uhuru Kenyatta...
Ruto contends – with some justification – that he inherited a rotten set of public finances from Uhuru Kenyatta's government in August including billions of dollars of loan-financed infrastructure spending the most notorious being the China-financed Standard Gauge Railway (AC Vol 64 No 7 Ruto gets the freight train blues)...
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Ruto insists there will be no repeat of the 'handshake' deal of March 2018 between Odinga and his predecessor Uhuru Kenyatta that brought Odinga into government after the disputed 2017 elections...
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Initially it seemed that President William Ruto's government would blame the economic costs of the SGR on the profligacy of its predecessor led by Uhuru Kenyatta...
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Ruto also appears to have relented in his vendetta against former President Uhuru Kenyatta's right-hand man former Ministry of Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i...
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