Reports of prostitutes’ deaths in Nakuru have negatively impacted on restaurant and lodging owners.
In this regard, some of the proprietors have now come up with measures to remain in business.
They include frisking customers thoroughly, not allowing single customers who go out clubbing late into the night and coming back with unidentified customers, not receiving customers past 1am to not allowing customers to check out before 6am.
But one proprietor has come up with a more serious way of handling customers at his facility in one of the most visited lodgings within the central business district.
Major (Rtd) Charles Mburu, owner cum manager of Dakaka Lodge says he resorted to withholding the national IDs of his customers until checkout as a precautionary measure.
“If a customer does not want to adhere to our operational laws, then we advise them to seek alternatives because at the end of the day, we are the ones who will be questioned with regards to whether their security is guaranteed during their stay at our lodging,” he said.
Speaking at a Nakuru hotel on Tuesday during a hotel and lodge owners meeting to recheck security measures, Mburu called on stakeholders in the sector to also hire qualified security personnel, arguing that some are bribed at night to allow some customers to entertain unwanted people in their rooms behind the management’s back.
The proprietors vowed to work together in ensuring that the good old days are retained, but also challenged the police to ensure that the killers are arrested and brought to book.