Uncertainty as row between regulators intensifies

A fresh power tussle is brewing between two of Kenya's most crucial regulators in the private sector, putting in jeopardy the enactment of crucial legislation targeted at levelling the economic playing field. Competition Authority of Kenya director general Francis Kariuki yesterday accused his counterpart from the Communication Authority of Kenya, Francis Wangusi, of crying wolf over the enactment of new laws that allegedly erode the powers of the former.

Mr Kariuki reckons the regulations passed by Parliament and signed by President Uhuru into law last month did not strip the powers of the Communication Authority as claimed by Wangusi, since the Authority did not have those powers in the first place.