Competition Authority of Kenya uncompetitive style

As commercial entities continue to flourish into multi-billion conglomerates or at least become dominant market actors, some business decisions stop just being innocent and instead become hard tackles against competitors or, even worse, the public.

To counter such behavioural tendencies, governments have developed the anti-trust law – better referred to as competition laws – to act like a referee in the marketplace. As usual, ours is mostly cut and paste. In most western jurisdictions, the enforcement agencies are very vibrant. They truly police economic actors to avoid abuse of their market dominance.