Kibera shoe traders and second-hand cloth sellers have decried loses due to low sales daily.
Speaking on Saturday morning at DC market, the traders said the business has gone down because most residents have used their monies on school fees, food and rent.
"Our business has gone down to the extent that we are incurring losses daily.. Many residents who have their children in different schools have used their money to pay school fees and this has stopped them from buying shoes and clothes for their children," said Olpha Osoro, a trader.
Eliud Omondi said he had made friends with college, university and high school students especially ladies who used to buy from him which he said bossted his income.
"All customers who were students are in school. Making new customers is very hard as you know in business. I am slowly making new customers though it will take a longer time", said Omondi, a mitumba trader.
For me to sell I had to look for ways to attract customers. One way I did that is by lowering the prices to attract customers since most of them prefer buying clothes and shoes sold at low prices," said Omondi.
"When things get bad as traders we look for a way out to make sales. This is only done by lowering prices of the commodities we sell to meet the targeted customers. We are trying hard to make the business go on only by lowering the prices of shoes and clothes in order to sell,” he said.