:: Hawking menace returns to CBD
25 February 2007

Mr. John Gakuo,
The Town Clerk,
City Hall,
Nairobi.

The Web Bandit
Nairobiliving.com,
Nairobi

Re: Hawking menace

I hope that all is well with you kind sir. I have seen you doing some sterling work making Nairobi reclaim its lost glory as "the green city in the sun." The new plant additions on the city streets are really helping the city of Nairobi get back its green tag. I am sure that eventually, this will become the prettiest and most eco-friendly city in the world if we continue at the same pace for the forseeable future.

The reason I am writing to you is not on the ongoing tree planting exercise. I am more interested in the hawker menace that you ably dealt with several months ago. I am led to believe that you were instrumental in ensuring that hawkers with their horribly overpriced products that break down as soon as you take them home leave our city streets. I believe that if one has to buy overpriced products that break down, we can walk into any Nakumatt around the country and get a similar shafting.

However, in the last few weeks hawkers have been returning to the central business district with some menace and I hope your able council can work to get rid of this menace. These hawkers seem to work with impunity ignoring your council officers and going about their business. They even have gone as far as getting tents especially at the following locations

:: Outside Standard Chartered building on Moi Avenue
:: Within the 20th Century complex
:: Within the Hilton complex
:: Mama Ngina street opposite International Life house

These hawkers claim to be working for two banks called Standard Chartered and Barclays Bank. They claim to be selling several products such as the All-in-one, Diva accounts and others. If my experience with hawkers is anything to go by, it is very hard to ascertain the veracity of their claims about these products.

Thus oh your town clerkness, I would be very pleased if you would looking at these hawkers as the menace they are and send you council askaris to deal with them forthwith. This way, the rest of us law abiding Nairobians can go about our business without having to deal with these renegade "mamluki-like" rogue traders.

Yours faithfully,
The Web Bandit

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