MPs need to enact special laws to deal with cartels

Parliament during a past session. [File, Standard]

President Uhuru Kenyatta last week pronounced himself on the grave danger posed by cartels operating within the country, describing them as leeches sucking away the blood and sweat of hardworking Kenyans.

And because they have “illegally rigged the market”, he directed intelligence agents to look into all spaces of the country, with particular attention to cartels in public systems – budgeting, procurement and regulation.