Street preachers in Nairobi to pay as Sakaja widens tax net

Nairobi County Assembly Budget and Planning Committee vice chairman Emily Oduor and Finance CEC Charles Kerich before the minister presented the budget estimates at City Hall on Thursday, June 28, 2023. [Samson Wire. Standard]

At the City Park, vendors will be required to pay a Sh4, 000 annual fee and Sh5, 000 for trading licenses.

The county boss has promised that traders will be allowed to operate freely in the city centre. However, how this position has changed and the traders will now be required to pay

Unlike before when hawkers paid Sh20 daily, under the new law, they will be required to pay Sh50 daily to the county government. This means that in a day, the hawkers who are estimated to be around 6,000, will make Sh300, 000 for the county government.

Kerich, while delivering the budget, promised to address challenges facing city dwellers.

School-going children

"Special focus will be placed on the interventions that touch on infrastructure, health care, environment, school-going children, the youth, and expanding the tax base for more revenue to finance development," said Kerich.

He said the county government will strive to enhance the quality of healthcare while making it affordable, deliver school feeding programmes, ease movement within the county and provide a clean environment.

Kerich said the county intends to continue using the digital pay service platform for convenience.

He said the introduction of sectional property rates targeting individual houses on a block of apartments will increase rates of income.