Serve the public or quit: Uhuru wants public workers barred from running businesses

Public servants may soon be barred from engaging in businesses that conflict with their duties in line with President Uhuru Kenyatta’s directive for a new legislation meant to address conflict of interest in government.

The president on Friday directed Attorney General Kihara Kariuki to come up with a legislative proposal to address a legal loophole that does not bar a public officer from engaging in business even when it clearly conflicts his role in government.