- In a TV interview, billionaire businessman Jimi Wanjigi quoted statistics that cast the economic management of current president Uhuru Kenyatta in a poor light.
- Wanjigi was right to say that debt repayments took 18% of revenue when former president Mwai Kibaki left office, and that GDP growth in 2007 was 7%.
Kenyan billionaire Jimi Wanjigi wants to be president, but were his TV interview facts on the money?
The mega-rich businessman wants the keys to the country’s highest office. We looked at statistics he cited in a bid to persuade Kenyans.