The Kenya Medical Training College and Egerton University Faculty of Health Sciences students’ leaders have vowed to protect food kiosk operators around the institutions along Kabarak-Nakuru highway against eviction by the county government. This following a notice that was issued by the county public health officer Samuel King’ori early this week following an outbreak of cholera in parts of the country. The student leaders who separately talked to this writer today at the twin institutions when contacted for comment said students would strongly oppose attempts to ban food kiosks in the area because such a move would adversely affect the ever busy students who depend on the traders for quick meals while attending classes or practicals at the Nakuru County Hospital. “We cannot allow such a thing to happen because these traders are very handy to us. We cannot afford to travel all the way to town centre for meals or go back to our rooms or home for meals yet we are ever busy.The county government should think twice before evicting these traders,’’said Suleiman Shabir chairman of Faculty of Health Students Association. James Okila Chairman of Nakuru Medical Students Union said the county government should inspect the food kiosks and advise the traders accordingly on public health measures instead of exercising a blanket eviction. He echoed his Egerton counterpart that the move would adversely affect the normal functioning of the students community since the food kiosks are strategically established to the the students community in terms of subsidized prices and proximity.

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