An overview of Thika Town CBD. Thika business community has decried low business occasioned by election fever.[Photo: Thika Live]The Thika Town business community has decried low business due to the ongoing political bickering pertaining the repeat presidential polls.Speaking when they addressed the press in a Thika hotel on Tuesday, the businesspersons said they had recorded low businesses since the Supreme Court ruling that nullified the reelection of President Uhuru Kenyatta. According to the group's spokesman Pius Thuku, the election fever has been affecting their businesses causing low turnovers.“People are not saving, nor are they investing their money on the capital projects thus the low returns. We have noted that the borrowing appetite is still there but it is very low as the business environment is not good,” Thuku saidHe added that Kenyans had employed the ‘wait and see’ culture occasioned by the fear of the unknown and said that businesses were not growing since the environment is not good compared to few month when they had heavy transactions.“The election fever is having a heavy beating on the economy and we are not the only ones affected but the whole country. The economy we have worked so hard to build after the post-election violence is diminishing again,” he lamented.The businesspersons likened those spreading fear to terrorists saying that terrorism is spreading fear among the people just like the politicians are doing.

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