The hawking menace that has affected Nairobi County could soon be resolved after city invited members of the public to give views on hawking within the city’s Central Business District (CBD). 

In a gazette notice Nairobi county secretary Jairus Musumba invited interested parties including the hawkers to give views.

“In this respect, the Nairobi City County government invites interested stakeholders for public participation and consultation on informal trading within Nairobi CBD,” Musumba said.

He said the consultative engagements will be held on November 3 – 4 at City Hall’s Charter House. During campaigns, governor Johnson Sakaja pledged that he would prioritise addressing the plight of hawkers in the city.

He assured the business community in Nairobi he would bring to an end the hardships they experience in the course of their work. Hawker menace in the CBD has been a problem that the previous county regimes failed to decisively deal with.

It was a weak link critics used to highlight administrative failures of the past county regimes.