How traders reaped big during devolution conference

Azimio la Umoja leader Raila Odinga and CoG chair Anne Waiguru check out boiled maize on offer at the Trans Nzoia stand. [Emmanuel Wanson, Standard]

Best known as the City of Champions, Eldoret town, the capital of Uasin Gishu County and commercial hub of the North Rift region, boomed in business in the just concluded eighth Devolution Conference.

For the last three days, Uasin Gishu, the host of the biannual event, was full of life as Eldoret, the town that is currently awaiting the final stages of ratification into the country's fifth city, roared in a 24-hour economy.