{"id":249719,"date":"2026-11-10T21:30:48","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T19:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-omtatah-questions-world-banks-silence-on-kenyas-hidden-borrowing-and-public-funds\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T21:30:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T19:30:48","slug":"kenya-omtatah-questions-world-banks-silence-on-kenyas-hidden-borrowing-and-public-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-omtatah-questions-world-banks-silence-on-kenyas-hidden-borrowing-and-public-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Omtatah Questions World Bank&#8217;s Silence On Kenya&#8217;s Hidden Borrowing and Public Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Nairobi \u2014 Busia Senator Okiya Omtatah has challenged the World Bank&#8217;s latest assessment of corruption in Kenya, accusing the international lender of focusing on procurement irregularities while ignoring what he describes as a deeper problem involving government borrowing and the management of public funds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">In a statement titled <em>Sen. Omtatah&#8217;s Musings on the World Bank&#8217;s Recent Misleading &#8216;Expose&#8217; on Corruption in Kenya<\/em>, the senator argued that corruption through public expenditure was only part&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611100616.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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 Busia Senator Okiya Omtatah has challenged the World Bank&#8217;s latest assessment of corruption in Kenya, accusing the international lender of focusing on procurement irregularities while ignoring what he describes as a deeper problem involving government borrowing and the management of public funds. In a statement titled Sen. Omtatah&#8217;s Musings on the World Bank&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":249720,"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":[258,256,6865,11107,5782,9101,4688,430,6097,257,20836,5751,5152,6992,254,5093],"class_list":["post-249719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-borrowing","tag-funds","tag-hidden","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas","tag-news","tag-omtatah","tag-public","tag-questions","tag-silence","tag-south-africa-today","tag-world"],"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\/249719","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=249719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}