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Hawkers stay put in Nairobi CBD

Police officers arrest a hawker with a three-month old baby near Wakulima Market on Sunday during an operation to remove the traders from Haile Selassie Avenue. [File, Standard]

It was business as usual on sections of Haile Selassie Avenue as hawkers sold their wares despite the heavy presence of police officers and county askaris.

They insisted that they were not going to leave because they did not have anywhere else to sell their wares.

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