Powder keg: Why Kitengela is fast becoming a hotbed of demonstrations

Kitengela town during the fuel hike protests. [Peterson Githaiga, Standard]

In the wake of the matatu protests against high cost of fuel, a devastated Kitengela businesswoman posed on social media: “Why destroy someone else’s business?”

The proprietor of KikisKitchen, a Swahili and Somali cuisine restaurant near Nairobi Women Hospital becomes one of the latest of the victims of demonstrations that have rocked the once peaceful Kitengela town in the last two years.