Compliance has to be one of those terms that goes straight into the ‘boring’ pot for 99 percent of us, yet it stands as the dividing line between a Wild West nation where anything goes and rules are for losers, and a fairer and more just society, where the law protects the masses from wrongdoing and exploitation.
Which makes compliance a really big deal for Kenya, and something we have generally been poor at. Our downfall is two-fold. The first big hurdle is that it is relatively easy to make a law or regulation. For sure, there are costs involved in all that drafting and meetings and public consultations. But ultimately making a rule costs far less than enforcing a rule.
