People are choking in debts..the same with companies..the same gov. All you need is slow down in economy..it could be due to global factors...say drop in tea or coffee or horticulture prices..collapse of tourism due to alshabab...or say Ebola epidemics...and before you know...everything is collapsing.
All post-kibaki era growth either at individual or gov or private sector level has been due to loans and debts.
Jubilee has taken it a note higher..and taken 700B loan in 1yr...500 from China..and 200 from Eurobond. Those are just the well know loans..add more loans from IMF/WB/Japan/France/UK....and then the usual 300B from domestic (tbills and tbonds)...so you can say since Uhuru came on...he has added 1 trillion in debts.
The 10,000kms of roads will be built through debts...that is massive. So are the energy projects. Yesterday Rotich stupidly allowed Turkana wind thing to have gov gurantee of kshs. 25b. Dead on arrival project.
So yes before you know...we will face debt crisis like Ghana now..or more catastrophic ones like argentina,brazil,eucador,greece or asia debt crisis of last decade.
The more we pile up debt..the more our margin of error to mess around is reduced.
Pundit,
C'mon are people really that indebted? THey can always sell the kaplot and pay the debt - if they have any.
We'll be like Greece.
Or just dont pay like Argentina.
Or pay like Ecuador where most taxes goes to pay debt.