The Competition Act has served the country well since coming into effect in 2011. The past 13 years have seen the successful mainstreaming of the law as an effective tool of market regulation.
This reality invites the question: can we now work backwards from the Competition Act, towards a national policy on competition? The answer, to use Kenyan parlance, is: ‘burrofcos’! In fact, from where I sit, there is a clear benefit of legislation having preceded policy.
