?Treaty set to open regional markets that have locked out Kenyans

Immigration PS Gordon Kihalangwa (left) and Interior Chief Administrative Secretary Patrick Ole Ntutu during IGAD meeting in Naivasha. [Antony Gitonga, Standard]

Kenya is eyeing the untapped Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (Igad) business opportunities under a treaty on free movement of people.

Igad member States of Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan and Uganda are drafting the treaty under which businesses, people and local communities living across the borders will set up shop and operate without restrictions.