Kiambu residents have raised an alarm over the influx of foreign beggars and are urging the county government to help them eliminate or reduce the numbers of the aliens in the street.
At a corner on the busy and dusty street of Kiambu, strategically sits a group of people with an assortment of musical instruments.
Tattered clothes make them look like a bunch of beggars with some appearing disabled as shown by a pair of crutches while the rest appear blind and dumb.
The ‘tools of trade’ include a car battery, a speaker and a microphone. Transistor radio is part of the equipment giving an impression that the group has been engaged in singing for some period.
Their mastery of the already recorded songs is superb. At a quick glance, they look like typical Kenyan street families who perform for money in an effort to eke a living but their Swahili accents tell a different story.
For two years now, the Tanzanian immigrants have been flocking into the county to take advantage of the Kenyans generosity.
Busy in strategic corners seated on their mats with empty bowls in their stretched hands hoping for at least a coin, they continue to entertain passersby along Biashara Street in Kiambu town.
It has remained a puzzle how these people manage to slip into the country. They seem so poor to even afford the means of transport to move across the borders.