A Kenyan government agency that gives loans to university students says it will publish the names and photos of 85,000 defaulters if they do not pay up within 30 days.
The Higher Education Loans Board (Helb) says it wants to recover at least 50bn Kenya Shillings ($490m; £378m), with debts going back to 1975.
The agency says it cannot trace 17,000 of the 85,000 loan defaulters, Daily Nation newspaper reports.
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Helb said in a statement that the names and pictures of the defaulters would be published in newspapers:
Last year Helb recovered more than $4m following a two-month amnesty that was issued by the government.
Since the loan scheme was launched in 1974 it has supported over 645,000 Kenyans to pursue higher education at a total cost of $706m.
BBC
