Disgruntled hawkers say they were not consulted before a ban was imposed on them in the capital.
Deaf hawkers Mercy Ayuma and Damaris Viregwa use sign language to communicate to customers while wearing face-masks to control the spread of the coronavirus disease next to their open-kiosk at the Kencom bus terminus in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, August 18, 2021. Picture taken August 18, 2021. REUTERS/Monicah MwangiThousands of small business owners have been defying a ban on hawking that was issued by Nairobi County Governor Johnson Sakaja a week ago.
We campaigned and promised to help the hustlers — small traders. We remind Sakaja, those are the people who elected him “Hawkers have no other alternative places to go and trade. We ask for more consultations with the governor on this issue,” he said.Mercy Njeri has been hawking second-hand clothes in the streets of Nairobi for more than five years. She is not ready to leave.
For George Ochieng, an employee in a private company in the city centre, Sakaja’s move is laudable. “Governor Sakaja should not back down. We want an orderly city,” he says.Winnie Mumangi, who works in the CBD, supports the ban, but she wants the Nairobi County Government to look for ways of helping the hawkers.
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