Nairobi City Inspectorate and health officials have arrested over ten vendors for selling uninspected food to residents.
According to press releases sent to media houses, seven food vendors from Kamkunji have been arrested and are being detained at Kamkunji police station while five from Embakasi have been taken to Embakasi Central Police station.
The vendors will be arraigned in court tomorrow to answer to charges of contravening section 4 and 36(1) of Food, Drugs and Chemical Substances Cap 254 as contained in Statute Law Act 2 of 2002.
Nairobi County Health Executive Mohamed Dagane said no one will operate or sell food without being inspected.
"We made this resolve and we want to effect it to the latter to avoid any health problems. We are not only targeting food vendors but food handlers in general," Dagane said.
He reiterated that a major crackdown within the CBD in areas like River-road, globe-cinema is currently underway.
“We are not only targeting street food vendors but also big hotels they should make sure that hygiene is properly maintained. We will put stringent measures that will ensure only safe food is sold in Nairobi,” he added.
This comes after Governor Mike Sonko called on health officials to ensure the exercise is done daily and come up with ways of stopping unscrupulous food vendors from infiltrating the market.