{"id":24418,"date":"2021-03-18T20:52:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T20:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/?p=24418"},"modified":"2021-03-18T20:52:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T20:52:02","slug":"treasury-cs-ukur-yattani-denies-taking-sh139-billion-covid-19-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/treasury-cs-ukur-yattani-denies-taking-sh139-billion-covid-19-loan","title":{"rendered":"Treasury CS Ukur Yattani denies taking Sh139 billion Covid-19 loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> The National Treasury has denied a report by Business Daily that Kenya took a secret Sh139 billion Covid-19 loan.<\/p>\n<p>Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yattani\u00a0<strong>(pictured)<\/strong>\u00a0has termed the article as \u2018misleading and malicious\u2019 and injurious to Treasury\u2019s image and reputation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNTP wishes to categorically state, that the Treasury CS did not enter into any loan contract for EUR 1,068,932,932,543 (Sh139 billion), with Kallo Inc as claimed in the company\u2019s filings with the United States Securities Exchange Commission (SEC),\u201d the CS said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Yattani further claims that the local daily relied on filings by Kallo Inc (a Canadian firm) with the SEC and at no point did they seek a right of reply from the Treasury which had sought more time to respond to the claim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe article erroneously attributed the story to the US SEC by claiming that it had disclosed the deal between the Treasury and Canadian firm Kallo Inc over the multi-billion-shilling deal to upgrade Kenya\u2019s health infrastructure\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yattani claimed that there is no plausible evidence that the SEC made such a revelation to the public.<\/p>\n<p>In the Thursday article, Business Daily reported that Kenya signed a secret Sh139.5 billion loan agreement with Belarusian and Canadian companies in June 2020 to build mobile clinics and upgrade county hospitals amid fears of rising coronavirus cases.<\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-article row\">\n<div class=\"pad\">\n<div class=\"text-center px-md-4 py-2\">\n<div class=\"text mb-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to SEC filings: \u201cOn June 26, 2020, the company finalised contracts with the Republic of Kenya and Techno-Investment Module Limited for a project contract and a finance contract.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfricaPress-Kenya: The National Treasury has denied a report by Business Daily that Kenya took a secret Sh139 billion Covid-19 loan. 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