City Council desperate to work out solution to regular Gikomba, Toi Market infernos

Agnes Nyaboke sits alone on an old sofa on a cold morning looking at the remains of what she used to call her business stall at Mutindwa market tucked between Buruburu and Umoja estates.

Crestfallen, the middle-aged woman is not waiting for customers to flock her stall and sample the second-hand clothes she had been selling but supervising two young men rebuilding her booth that was razed to ashes by a morning inferno on June 14.