The first proposal is to amend the Advocates Act to ensure quacks and blacklisted lawyers have no loophole to practise. In the changes, all lawyers in Kenya will be required to get a practice number from the Law Society of Kenya (LSK). Safaricom, Kenya’s leading mobile service provider, has on its roster 14 companies that offer premium rate services in Kenya, while Airtel, the second mobile service provider has 25 companies. These companies lease special short codes for text messages from the mobile phone service providers which they then use to make money by charging the SMS at a cost higher than what the mobile service providers charge. The lifetime perks for a retired CJ shall include “a monthly pension of 80 per cent their last salary while in office” and a lumpsum payment of a year’s pay.

Source: Standard Digital January 27, 2017 18:18 UTC