Kenya’s burdensome debt to developed countries is partly the product of theft on the part of “previous leaderships,” Foreign Minister Raphael Tuju said in a prepared statement distributed prior to his address to the UN General Assembly. Since becoming a Cabinet member in the Kibaki administration four-and-a-half years ago, Mr Tuju declared in the statement, but not in his actual address, “I discovered that some of these loans were actually shady schemes, unnecessary pseudo projects whose only objective was to steal that money.”