The malaise can go on for a long time. Haiti has been at it for 200 years, Argentina has been on burst burst cycles for 50+ years.

The last time GoK did a similar binge on infrastructure was around 1920-1927. The economy never recovered from the debt binge until the 2nd world war. It took the Swynnerton Plan to fundamentally restructure the economy to get things going again.

In between Happy valley manenos happened which was the equivalent of current parte after parte. Bro Enjoy life, plan for retirement-investments wachia wajukuu

Everything ultimately rises and falls on leadership. Britain was on the malaise in 1960's and 1970's till Margaret Thatcher came and took the hard bold decisions.

If you look at the current kenyan leadership no one has the brains or balls to get us out of the quagmire. So for now let's continue with parte after parte

Kenya will need almost a decade to tame runaway debt as the country is expected to borrow Sh9 trillion by 2024.

Rating agency Fitch says the general government debt-to-GDP ratio will continue increasing through 2022 to 64.8 per cent before easing gradually to 60.5 per cent by 2028.

“Our projections are less optimistic than that (those) of the government, which sees debt stabilising in 2020 and falling to 54 per cent by 2024. General government debt reached 61.3 per cent of GDP at end-2019,” Fitch said in a rating update on December 10.
https://www.businessdail...88236-xk10xz/index.html

https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/economy/Low-spending-hurts-Christmas-stores-sales/3946234-5396546-sfxdugz/index.html

All those insisting the economy is growing, how do you explain this?

SGR first principal payment is due in January 2020.
Amount ksh.35Bn

Hii iko kwa budget.

https://af.reuters.com/article/kenyaNews/idAFS8N1H502P

GDP growth slows to 3.8%

https://www.nation.co.ke/news/Broke-Kenyans-hope-for-better-fortunes-in-2020/1056-5403626-mxs1wi/index.html