Sakaja orders a crackdown and bans hawking on CBD pavements

Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja has ordered a crackdown exercise against hawkers in the CBD. https://bit.ly/45LOzRi

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00:00 But really, before those guys come, I want you to understand, you must be confident and you must be firm.

00:05 And you must be fair.

00:08 A rule is a rule.

00:11 When we say there is no hawking or avenue, there is none for anyone.

00:14 Here in Tomboya, we said there is none, and I will say it again.

00:19 There is none, no matter who it is.

00:22 Don't send a phone to this person or that person to help us find our person.

00:26 Because if you allow one person, why not the other person?

00:29 Are we together?

00:30 So the rules must apply to everyone.

00:32 A city of order, you know what that means?

00:34 It means that whatever rule is there, everyone follows.

00:38 No one is above the law.

00:40 We want our people to trade.

00:42 That is why I said on Saturday and Sunday, no parking fees.

00:46 Let people come to Nairobi, let's open places, even the Kenyatta Avenue areas, sell them, but in a dignified way.

00:54 Let's make them.

00:56 And in this meeting, I will want a Kumali to tell us, pallet, is it called pallet or pellet?

01:02 That thing to sell, what size is it, how does it look, where is it?

01:07 Others have built a town, that you sell it in a town, it's like you're building another building.

01:15 We wouldn't allow that.

01:16 There will be no hawking on the road.

01:18 To sell things on the road, zero.

01:22 That one we will not have.

01:25 That one is an irreducible minimum, even for their own safety.

01:29 We will not have any hawking on the roads.

01:32 You start enforcing it from tomorrow morning.

01:35 In the streets, at the bus station.

01:42 If they are inside a small section, it is okay, we agree with the timings and we'll have that discussion now, now, now with them.

01:53 But on the road, it is an irreducible minimum.

01:55 [Speaking in foreign language]

02:00 [Applause]

02:02 [Silence]