An average Kenyan will have to work almost 60 days to afford Apple's premium iPhone XS.
Source: Capital FM (January 2019)
“Average wage” excludes informal sector workers.
We have less than 500,000 mortgages. I think it is probably closer to 200,000 mortgages.
Source: Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta
There were 26,178 home mortgages in Kenya as at December 2017.
Nairobi makes KSh10 billion from Murang’a county water every year.
Source: Murang’a county governor Mwangi wa Iria (October 2018)
Nairobi earned KSh5.1 billion from sale of water in 2016/17 - and not all from Murang'a.
China is Kenya’s number one trading partner.
Source: Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta (November 2018)
China was Kenya’s largest trading partner in 2017.
Kenya’s government gets billions of dollars from Kericho’s tea but the county receives nothing.
Source: Kericho governor Paul Chepkwony (September 2018)
Kericho has received levies and taxes from tea.
Three claims on tax and employment in Kenya
Source: Raphael Tuju, secretary-general of the Jubilee Party (September 2018)
One mostly correct, one incorrect, one correct
Unicef research found 65% of females in Kibera slum traded sex for sanitary pads
Source: The UK’s Independent newspaper (September 2018)
No data supports the claim
95% of Kenya’s budget resources go to the executive
Source: Abdikadir Mohamed (September 2018)
Executive got 52% of Kenya’s total budget in 2017/18
Three claims about Kenya’s tax income and spending on development
Source: Aden Duale, majority leader in the national assembly (September 2018)
One correct, two incorrect
China now owns more than 70% of Kenya’s external debt
Source: Quartz news website (July 2018)
China owns 21.3% of Kenya’s external debt