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City hustlers make cool Sh10 million from ‘selling’ Taj Mall

People making money in fallen Taj Mall

The owner of Taj Mall building Rameshchandra Govind Gorasia may have lost billions of shillings after the building was brought down. But the demolition was a windfall for scrap metal dealers.

The hustlers are believed to have made a whopping Sh10 million from the sale of metals and other building materials they salvaged from the site after demolition.

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