With such talk in the air, the President’s Chief of Staff and Head of Presidential Delivery Unit Mr Nzioka Waita swiftly dismissed the reports as false. “The Belt and Road Initiative is a multilateral event that involves over 60 heads of state and government. They came for a meeting as global leaders to discuss global interconnectivity of infrastructure to improve trade between east and west and south and north,” said Waita. “So President Kenyatta meeting with president Xi Jinping was one of several bilateral meetings China’s president had,” Nzioka told KTN. The Country’s public debt now stands at Sh5.398trn according to the latest figures released by the Central Bank of Kenya.

Source: Standard Digital April 29, 2019 10:41 UTC