Mutua said KFCB shall soon install a Hall of fame where legends and heroes in the creative industry will be recognized and celebrated.
“We are doing a lot. We acquired and refurbished Nairobi Cinema, now known as the Nairobi Film Centre to offer a platform for youth to showcase their talents within the CBD, Nairobi County,’ he said.
He said fashion shows, concerts, theatre productions, religious meetings, have been showcased at the facility. So far, Nairobi Cinema has become the hub for creative arts in the city.
Moreover, we have created interagency collaborations to position film and the creative arts as the frontier for employment and wealth creation.
THE STANDARD By
Josphat Thiong’o |
December 29th 2020 at 08:35:15 GMT +0300
Hawker Evana Morry at Nairobi’s Marikiti Market in March. [File, Standard]
Hawkers and other small-scale traders will have to be licensed to ply their trade in Nairobi if a new Bill is adopted by the City County Assembly.
The Nairobi City County Pop-up Markets and Street Vendors Bill 2019 has proposed a raft of measures aimed at regulating how hawkers and small-scale traders conduct their business.
The Bill by nominated MCA Kabiro Mbugua, which has already gone through the Second Reading and public participation, is intent on establishing a department to deal with the operation of hawkers and small-scale traders.
THE STANDARD By
Everlyne Kwamboka |
December 22nd 2020 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
The High Court has saved the cash-strapped Uchumi Supermarkets’ assets from the auctioneer’s hammer over rent arrears.
This is after the court found Townsville Holdings Ltd disobeyed an order barring any landlord from exercising any act of forfeiture, or even distress for rent without reference to or consent of the supervisor of the company or approval of the court.
Justice Alfred Mabeya, sitting in Nairobi, also barred the landlord from harassing the supermarket until the court issues further orders.
In the case, the High Court had in July ordered that all claims before March 2 valued at more than Sh3 billion be settled in terms of the Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA).
Will proposed law end Nairobi hawker menace?
Monday December 21 2020
By COLLINS OMULO
Summary
The hawkers’ menace in Nairobi is an age-old problem that has defied various interventions meant to restore sanity in the city streets.
Attempts to relocate the hawkers to permanent markets including Muthurwa, Mwariro and Kirindini have proved largely unsuccessful.
Even where some move to new locations after being asked to do so, there are always new traders showing up to take up the spaces they vacate on the streets, making it hard to convince anyone to shift to the intended market areas.
Nairobi, once popular as the ‘Green City in the Sun’, has sadly lost this description with the invasion of hawkers slowly turning its streets into a nightmare for residents.