The government should have lifted the ban on analogue television transmission for the three days US President Barack Obama is in the country.
This is according to Joel Mwiti, a newspaper vendor based in Athi River Town who said several residents were missing out on the president's functions in Nairobi.
According to Mwiti, most of the residents could not watch the historical visit because their televisions had been switched off long ago when digital migration took effect some months back.
Mwiti said the victims could not afford several types of digital transmission kits available in the markets because they were expensive to them.
"Most of Athi River residents are slum dwellers with the old television sets in their houses. A number of them still keep the great wall types of TVs in their houses, they live under abject poverty," said Mwiti.
Samwel Otieno, a resident of Jua Kali slum within the town concurred with the newspaper vendor stating that even the structures in which they lived could not allow usage of better televisions.
Otieno said most of the slum dwellers were under roofs of ram shackled structures in the name of houses where they used motorcycle cells to power their analogue television sets.
He said to them, migration from analogue to digital transmission was a tall order adding their houses had no electricity and majority could equally not afford houses powered with electricity due to poverty.
Gladys Mwende said she had moved with her household to her friend's house that is few kilometres from where she lives just to watch television for the three days.
Mwiti said a number of residents from late last week have been visiting his business premises each morning to read newspapers and see photos of Obama's expensive cars and aircrafts as they were brought into the country.
He said it was high time the country's leadership considers its low-earning citizens while coming up with legislations which would affect the entire Kenyan populace just like the digital migration.