Nairobi County arrests hawkers in push to restore sanity

Hawkers go about their business in the city. The county has embarked on an operation to clear the streets of hawkers. [Photo: File, Standard]

The city county will today start a swoop on street families in an operation that has also seen around 2,000 hawkers arrested.

The Director of Operations at the City Inspectorate Department Peter Mbaya said yesterday that over the past two weeks an operation had begun to first tame hawkers, then street children and finally the matatu industry.