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Business hit hard as Nairobi residents desert city

Nairobi city traders who hoped to make a kill from President Barack Obama’s opening of the Global Entrepreneurship Summit yesterday were disappointed after few buyers turned up. [PHOTO: ANGELA MAINA/STANDARD]

 

Even with international billionaires meeting in Nairobi’s Gigiri area, a section of micro, small and medium entrepreneurs opened their businesses despite heavy deployment of security officers.

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