Hearing of public debt petition set for March

The hearing of a petition challenging the legality of more than Sh6.9 trillion loans borrowed by the government from 2014 to date has been set for March.

A bench of three judges of the High Court on January 6, 2026, said that it would determine all applications, including those seeking to strike out the case, alongside the main petition.

Dropped Adani power lines blow Sh32bn hole in PPP funding plan

The cancellation of Adani Energy Solutions Ltd’s (AESL) power transmission lines project left a Sh32.3 billion hole in the Treasury’s projections for public-private partnership (PPP) fund inflows, undermining government plans to finance infrastructure without adding to public debt.

Save Nairobi from planning law breaches

Somebody should go to jail for the deaths caused by collapse of the 14-storey building under construction in Nairobi’s South C. This was not an accident. It was a foreseeable, preventable outcome of a city where capital has outrun the law-and where planning rules have become negotiable suggestions rather than binding safeguards.