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Uhuru wants public servants to stop dealing in private business

President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto during the National Anti-Corruption Conference at the Bomas of Kenya. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

President Uhuru Kenyatta is shifting gears in the purge against endemic graft if the proposals he tabled yesterday at the National Anti-Corruption Conference are anything to go by.

His proposal that seeks to keep public officers off private businesses was last night being hailed as a turning point in the purge, even as he announced the scaling up of lifestyle audit to top most levels of his government. 

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