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Over regulation rolling back gains of liberalised market

JKIA after Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) staff down their tools over the proposed merger of KQ and KAA in March 2019. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

Kenyans are more conversant with political transitions from colonialism to uhuru and from a single party to multipartyism.

And now no partyism. The economic transition from controlled prices to the market economy called soko huru in the countryside is less publicised.

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