Outcry as shilling fall hits hard second-hand clothes, car dealers

No one understands what the fall of the Kenyan Shillings means more than dealers of second hand clothes. The effect is now hitting home to millions of households around the country.

A vender sells pineapples next to a second hand stall at the Gikomba market in Nairobi

Esther Njoroge is one such trader based at the country’s largest open air market in Gikomba where business is now sluggish thanks to a sharp rise in costs of the imported merchandise. “Business is very bad,” she says, before explaining that the rising prices have depressed demand and kept buyers away.