Who will exorcise the ghosts behind Gikomba inferno?

Residents rescue belongings after fire damaged property at Gikomba Market. (Maxwell Agwanda, Standard)

For two decades, some city ghosts have found a home by Nairobi River where they operate under the cover of darkness, leaving behind a trail of death and destruction and shattered livelihoods.

So powerful are these ghosts that even after President Uhuru Kenyatta, invoked the powers of his office in October last year and directed security organs to go after the people behind the cyclic fires that have been razing Gikomba area since 2000, not a single arsonist has been apprehended.