Mai Mahiu shopping centre has often been in the news for the wrong reasons especially due to the presence of commercial sex workers but the most recent one calls for immediate intervention if at all Nakuru County wants to reclaim its lost glory.
This concern arose on Tuesday after long distance drivers who use the parking lot at the centre for threatened to boycott the parking lot if nothing was done to reduce the overwhelming number of the twilight girls that had formed a habit of drugging them.
They lamented of how one of them who was en route to Burundi had been in a coma after being drugged and left half dead by one of the girls on the area said to be very notorious.
John Kirumbi, a Ugandan national, said the drivers were ready to lead a procession to the governor’s office to express their anger, claiming that the cases were becoming too many.
“We are here to rest and go not to exploit anybody. Why are these girls exploiting us? What angers us most is why they have resorted into drugging us and stealing from us,” he lamented.
“We are on duty like any other person who fully depends on this job to fend for our families; do they want to kill us?" Kirumbi asked.
To Sylvester Aboud, a driver plying the Tanzania-Mombasa route, the women were tainting the image of the area by doing what was not expected.
“I am a Kenyan and will always feel bad when somebody talks ill of my country. My other drivers are really complaining about Mai Mahiu, them not packing here will mean that the county misses out on the revenue we always pay. If this persists, we are headed there,” he said.
The Christmas aftermath party was cut short at the centre after the drivers boycotted demanding bar owners to eject the girls many of whom are Ugandan nationals from their business premises accusing them of drugging them and stealing from them.
It took the intervention of area MCA Stephen Ng’ethe to calm them down. He promised to look into the issue in due time.
He then ordered the women out of the area during Governor Mbugua’s development tour in the area saying that the area leadership would not allow them to tint the areas image.