It is a common thing not only in the cities and big towns but also in small ones and especially in the slums.
You will see people, men and women alike preparing and selling meals at the roadside some even displaying cooked food oblivious of the dangers they are exposing their customers to, all in the name of advertisement.
Majority of us have tasted the chips and mandazis sold by the roadside. Mutura has with time become a delicacy to many of us, and when hunger strikes, no one thinks beyond the bite of that sweet food that will relieve us off the crumpling stomach.
Time and again the government has been up in arms fighting food hawkers and even sending some to jail of course to save its citizens from diseases such as cholera, diarrhoea and others of the sought.
Everyone knows for sure that we reap what we sow and you cannot expect to live happily and comfortably after idling around without doing any job that earns you at least a dollar a day.
Who doesn’t know that the women who county askaris chase everyday along the city streets are looking for food, shelter, clothing and school fees for their children on their backs? The ones by the roadsides too are doing the same.
They go through a hectic day in the sun and dust to ensure passersby are sorted with a meal as they come from their work or in the morning as they rush to catch a matatu.
But there is still a better way we could empower them as well as maintain good hygiene.
This is why both the county and national governments should consider putting up eateries in suburbs and in slums as an appreciation to the men and women who know the true meaning of the saying a hungry man is an angry man.
By doing this, many people will be self employed and we will be proud to have a healthy society with less people engaging in crime and hooliganism and other vices for lack of jobs.