By FREDRICK OBURA
The Government should streamline inspectorate bodies to root out corruption as well as avoid slipping further down in its rating as an investment destination, the World Bank has said.
The Bank said reforms in different inspectorate departments were necessary and would provide sufficient operation guidelines to help the government realise more revenues from legitimate businesses.
"We are not satisfied with the operation of various inspectorate bodies, many are chaotic and only targets to legitimate businesses for extortion purposes," said Fred Zake the Co-ordinator Kenya Investment Climate Advisory Services at the Bank.
He noted that continued harassment in search of minor mistakes was an avenue to corruption and only results in lose of more revenue to the country a business operation is disrupted.
He challenged the inspectorate bodies to come up with better and standardised guidelines on regulation to eliminate abuses, reduce discretion, and cap excessively frequent inspections.
CONDUCTING INSPECTIONS
"Better reforms were necessary, it would make investment climate in the country much better."
The Bank, and the International Finance Corporation would be meeting inspectors drawn from bodies like health, and local authorities among others to brainstorm on better ways of conducting inspections among different business entities.
Zake said the two bodies have also lined up a team of international experts to help reform the inspectorate sector. They would be training the inspectors on best practices borrowed from successful nations.
Source: The Standard | Online Edition
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