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Jimi Wanjigi Sounds Fiscal Alarm as Kenya Teeters on Debt Cliff

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Businessman Jimi Wanjigi has issued a stark warning over Kenya’s ballooning public debt, declaring that the country is “on financial life support” due to years of reckless borrowing and systemic mismanagement by successive regimes. Speaking at a charged Bunge La Wananchi forum in Nairobi’s Jeevanjee Gardens, Wanjigi pulled no punches, accusing the government of mortgaging the country’s future while ignor.......

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