Nakuru County Finance and Planning CeC Anne Njenga has appealed to hawkers who abandoned the stalls they were allocated by the county government to go back or lose them.
Mrs Njenga said a number of hawkers who were relocated from the central business district have abandoned the stalls allocated to them and have started invading the CBD again.
She said the county government will allocate the stalls to new hawkers if the owners do not take them back.
“There are so many stalls along Oginga Odinga and Mburu Gichua roads which have been abandoned and we want to tell the owners that if they can’t go back, then we will be forced to re-allocate them to new hawkers,” she said.
“Some of them are getting back into the CBD and the county government will not allow that because they have a place they should be working from and not the CBD,” she added.
The minister said the county government spent a lot of money on the stalls and it’s unfair for the hawkers to abandon them.
However, some of the hawkers who spoke to this writer said the location of the stalls does not attract customers and that is why they abandoned them.
“The stalls are so hidden and we can’t get customers there,” said Anne Nyambura