Traders at Top market in Nakuru town have given the Nakuru county government two weeks to clean up the market after which they have threatened to boycott taxes.
The traders claim that the market sanitation standards are very poor accusing the county government of failing to collect garbage.
The traders say that garbage that is piling up at the market is posing health risk to them and their customers.
“As traders we are giving the Nakuru government two weeks to collect garbage at this market or we will stop paying levies,” one trader said.
He accused the county government of prioritizing money at the expense of delivering services.
“It is unfair for the county government not to collect garbage and clean up our market yet we pay huge levies,” he added.
Esther Kamau, a food vendor at Top market said that sanitation at the market is wanting. She said that garbage is being dumped haphazardly adding that the situation could result to disease outbreak.
The traders want the County Environment CeC and the Health CeC to act immediately on their concerns.
Similar complaints are being raised by traders at the Wakulima market who accuse the county official’s responsible for garbage collection of sleeping on their jobs.