{"id":22136,"date":"2026-01-14T04:50:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T04:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/22136\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T04:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T04:50:17","slug":"counties-weighed-down-by-huge-bank-loans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/22136\/","title":{"rendered":"Counties weighed down by huge bank loans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ea7af20b-004b-407c-8f95-b059c551fbf2.jpeg\" class=\"ui-draggable ui-draggable-handle\" style=\"max-width: 100%; width: 100%;\"\/>Counties weighed down by huge bank loans\/ROSA MUMANYI<\/p>\n<p>A report by the Controller of Budget, Margaret Nyakang&#8217;o, reveals that several Kenyan counties are heavily burdened by high-interest bank loans used to cover salaries and utilities.<\/p>\n<p> Nairobi leads significantly, with the Executive owing Sh6.04 billion and the Assembly Sh243.7 million. <\/p>\n<p>Other heavily indebted regions include Machakos Executive (Sh544.25 million), Homa Bay Executive (Sh471.48 million), and Kisumu Executive (Sh289.07 million). <\/p>\n<p>Vihiga Executive and the assemblies of Nyandarua and Laikipia also face substantial debts. <\/p>\n<p>This reliance on commercial loans highlights a growing financial strain within county governments across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Counties weighed down by huge bank loans\/ROSA MUMANYI A report by the Controller of Budget, Margaret Nyakang&#8217;o, reveals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[80,351,352,98,100,353,101,350,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-22136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kenya","8":"tag-kenya","9":"tag-kenya-news","10":"tag-star","11":"tag-star-news","12":"tag-star-news-kenya","13":"tag-star-newspaper-kenya","14":"tag-the-star","15":"tag-the-star-kenya","16":"tag-the-star-newspaper"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}