Years back Nakuru Town was declared as the cleanest city in Kenya and just a few years ago, it was the fastest growing towns in Africa. Come back to today and that glory seems to be fading by the day. In the months of June and July 2014, small scale business owners have faced the full wrath of the Nakuru County Council which has demolished thousands of Give Kenya Hope business structures deeming them dirty and unfit plus increasing the level of insecurity. Arial view of a section of Nakuru Town/PHOTO Courtesy The move to clean up the city and return it to its former glory is not a bad thing but how it is done is quite wrong. Most of the business establishments destroyed belong to the common mwananchi who lives from hand to mouth. They are the entrepreneurs whom you will never see on television but they are making it by raking in on the’’ twenty bobs’’ ...
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