However, hardly two years later, the population pressure scuttled the plan, forcing national planners back to the drawing board. The plan was expected to increase the average income of each family by £200 a year. Currently, most of Kenya’s development budget is financed through debt. In July 1965, Kenya’s Ambassador to the US, Burudi Nabwera warned that any gains made by Kenya’s economy could be cancelled by rising birth rate. At that time, Kenya’s population of nine million was increasing at three per cent per year.

Source: Standard Digital May 09, 2017 05:26 UTC