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Welcome to Kapsabet Town: Where goats fight for space with residents

In Kapsabet town, Nandi County, goats roam the town’s streets as traders jostle with animals for limited space. This has caused long traffic jams daily to the chagrin of town residents. For over a year, the traders are selling grains, fish among other commodities on the congested streets, causing human and vehicular traffic outside the business premises.

Catherine Nanjala, a green maize hawker, sits outside the incomplete stalls as she narrates their daily ordeal. She says daily, they are confronted by county enforcement officers who demand Sh50, failure to which they are ejected from the space.

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