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With close to Sh 60billion spewed into this year’s elections, things may have just gotten worse

A trader going about her business at Ngara market. [Photo: Jonah Onyango, Standard]

2.5 kilometers away from the heart of the Nairobi Central Business District lies Ngara Market. Every morning on my way to work, I see that the market is just beginning to wake up from its disturbed slumber that only lasted a few hours.

Shops are beginning to be stuffed and street vendors make the pathways extremely narrow forcing people to walk in a straight line like soldiers going to battle.

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