The amendments and legal adoption of electronic signatures will help Kenya rise in the Ease of Doing Business rankings. Currently Kenya is ranked number 56 with a score of 73.2. This is because it will hasten processes such as Registration of Property where Kenya ranks 134 with a score of 53.8. This is slightly above the Sub-Saharan Africa regional average which is 53.6.
This article was first published in the Business Daily newspaper September 1, 2016. Land is dear to Kenyans. Despite how we abhor agriculture, everyone wants to own a plot somewhere. A result of this obsession is a lot of speculation in buying of land, over pricing and graft in the land registries. The process of …