{
  "id": 760486,
  "title": "Omtatah questions Kenya’s borrowing powers, calls for constitutional scrutiny",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/omtatah-questions-kenyas-borrowing-powers-calls-for-constitutional",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-13T10:36:43.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "People Daily Kenya",
    "slug": "people-daily-kenya",
    "url": "https://peopledaily.digital/inside-politics/omtatah-questions-kenyas-borrowing-powers-calls-for-constitutional-scrutiny"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Busia Senator Okiya Omtatah has called for a fresh constitutional debate over who has the legal authority to commit Kenya to public debt, arguing that the country’s biggest borrowing problem is not the size of the debt but the power to bind future generations. In a statement posted on his X account on Thursday, August […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}