MPs shield Safaricom’s Lipa Mdogo Mdogo from CBK control

A customer care agent holds a smartphone being sold in a Safaricom outlet in a Lipa Mdogo Mdogo credit scheme.

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Safaricom will be exempted from Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) regulation of its business unit that sells smart phones on credit, shielding the telecoms operator from controls on interest charged on the products.

The National Assembly Finance and National Planning Committee accepted the company’s petition for its credit purchase service, called Lipa Mdogo Mdogo, to be kept out of the regulator’s control.

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