Details of bill to control public servants in running businesses

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Ambition is great but when it comes to civil servants, unfairness and advantage taking of many in the game not to mention abuse of office can get ugly there being no rules to ensure fairness and equal chances for everyone

President Uhuru Kenyatta, on Friday, directed Attorney General Paul Kihara to draft a bill aimed at barring public servants from running private businesses.

Speaking during the National Anti-Corruption Conference hosted at Bomas, Uhuru specifically sought to prevent the servants from running the businesses in the same industry that they supervise.

“I direct the Attorney-General to come up with a bill to address the question of conflict of interest and the unintended consequences of the Ndegwa Commission of 1971,” stated the President.

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He further gave the servants an option asking them to choose whether they will work for the public or run their own businesses.

“State or public officers will have one choice: Serve in the public arena or go and do private business,” offered Uhuru.

The President was seeking to reverse the 1971 bill by the Duncan Ndegwa Commission that had allowed public servants to manage personal businesses. A bill that many servants had exploited for long

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