The government of Kenya passed the Finance and Microfinance Bill. The bill, drafted in 2000, requires all microfinance institutions (MFIs) to be open to mandatory audits from the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), the authority that regulates the country’s commercial banks. Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki supported the bill in an effort to curtail the entry of bogus microfinance institutions into the market.

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