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MPs, private sector now seek to legalise lobbying for business-friendly laws

Speaker Justin Muturi (centre) with the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) vice-chair Laila Macharia (left) when MPs met KEPSA officials in Mombasa on Friday. [Photo: KEVIN KARANI/STANDARD

One cloudy morning last month, a businessman in a well-tailored suit, a sheaf of papers in a black leather bag on his right hand, and an IPad on his left hand, walked into the main Parliament Building in Nairobi.

He had been sent by actors in the multi-billion shilling tobacco industry to “talk” to MPs to drop tough rules introduced by the government for the safety of non-smoking public. The man, in his mid-fifties, asked where he could locate the House Committee on Delegated Legislation.

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