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Parliament committee says commercial lending rate caps should stay - document

Kiambu MP Jude Njomo explains a point during an interview. [PHOTO: FELIX KAVII/STANDARD]

A parliamentary committee on Wednesday rejected the finance ministry’s request to scrap commercial lending rate caps, a document seen by Reuters showed.

The Finance and National Planning Committee had instead recommended that the law placing caps be rewritten to give it more clarity.

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