{"id":180163,"date":"2024-09-08T09:21:38","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T07:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-pending-bills-drop-by-sh106-6bn-as-state-moves-to-clear-debt\/"},"modified":"2024-09-08T09:21:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T07:21:38","slug":"kenya-pending-bills-drop-by-sh106-6bn-as-state-moves-to-clear-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-pending-bills-drop-by-sh106-6bn-as-state-moves-to-clear-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Pending Bills Drop By Sh106.6bn As State Moves to Clear Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The National Government&#8217;s pending bills dropped by Sh106.6 billion to Sh516.27 billion in the full year ending June 30, 2024, partly driven by the recent state&#8217;s initiative to clear outstanding debt.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Latest Controller of Budget (CoB) data shows that the country&#8217;s debt to various entities and individuals stood at Sh622.82 billion as of June 30, 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The arrears are distributed across various entities, including state corporations, which owe suppliers Sh379.81 billion, followed by&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409060368.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 The National Government&#8217;s pending bills dropped by Sh106.6 billion to Sh516.27 billion in the full year ending June 30, 2024, partly driven by the recent state&#8217;s initiative to clear outstanding debt. Latest Controller of Budget (CoB) data shows that the country&#8217;s debt to various entities and individuals stood at Sh622.82 billion as of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":180164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,7898,11304,6861,7431,4688,430,6858,257,8067,49467,254,6017],"class_list":["post-180163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bills","tag-clear","tag-debt","tag-drop","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-moves","tag-news","tag-pending","tag-sh106-6bn","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}