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Millionaires who rake in fortunes from Gikomba

By Kiundu Waweru

It is Nairobi’s most down-market trading space, famed for second-hand clothes and shunned by many for its muddy trenches, but many of Nairobi’s Gikomba market operators are millionaires raking in cash despite the muck.

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