{"id":227715,"date":"2026-03-21T13:10:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T11:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenyas-finance-minister-defends-infrastructure-fund-but-includes-misleading-claims\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T13:10:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T11:10:51","slug":"kenyas-finance-minister-defends-infrastructure-fund-but-includes-misleading-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenyas-finance-minister-defends-infrastructure-fund-but-includes-misleading-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya&#8217;s Finance Minister Defends Infrastructure Fund but Includes Misleading Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\"><em>Kenya&#8217;s finance minister defends infrastructure fund but includes misleading claims<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The minister was right about the size of Kenya&#8217;s debt but mangled some of his figures, including when repayments crossed 50% of revenues.<\/li>\n<li>On education, he presented a partial picture, claiming the sector receives 27% of total spending. In reality, that figure applies only to a subset of expenditure; the full picture is considerably less generous.<\/li>\n<li>While he was right about current power generation, his framing that&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603200242.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>Kenya&#8217;s finance minister defends infrastructure fund but includes misleading claims The minister was right about the size of Kenya&#8217;s debt but mangled some of his figures, including when repayments crossed 50% of revenues. On education, he presented a partial picture, claiming the sector receives 27% of total spending. In reality, that figure applies only to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":227716,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,8117,7820,7829,5111,19896,9864,430,6097,5941,32364,257,254],"class_list":["post-227715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-claims","tag-defends","tag-finance","tag-fund","tag-includes","tag-infrastructure","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas","tag-minister","tag-misleading","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/227715","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=227715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}