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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.