Sakaja: No more hawking on sidewalks and roads within the CBD

Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja with city-based hawkers' representatives during a consultative meeting at City Hall, Nairobi. [Samson Wire, Standard]

For this reason, the governor called for fairness and that that operation must be taken with a lot of significance.

During the meeting with County Askaris, fondly referred to as Kanjo Askaris, they were urged to always be uniform.

Sakaja said: "All our officers must be in uniform. I don't want anyone operating without a uniform unless it is part of an operation by a plain clothes team."

Earlier this week, Starehe Member of Parliament Amos Mwago called upon the Nairobi county government to compensate hawkers whose goods were destroyed by County Askaris.

Several traders lost their wares following an exercise by County enforcement to eject hawkers from the city centre on October 19, 2023.

"No trader should be treated like that...they all have rights to be treated with dignity as they were promised," Mwago stated.