Nairobi, July 2 -- The news that Kenya's economic growth has slowed down to 4.9 per cent in quarter one is unlikely to surprise anyone, alarming as that is. While official figures indicate that last year the country managed an impressive 5.8 per cent expansion in quarter one, the expansion rate for this year represents an eight-year low.
The major worry is what the numbers will look in the second quarter considering that the economy has been in a partial lockdown, which has in in turn hurt exports, hospitality and transport industries in a big way.
Alarmingly, this comes alongside closure of institutions of learning, whose impact implies that the newly officially unemployed numbers are just a tip of the iceberg.
Although the government h...