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Back in 2019, Nairobi residents were caught by surprise when police officers were deployed to man public toilets in the Central Business District (CBD).
For the next two weeks, it was drama as police kept vigil amid vicious fights between two rival camps for control of the scarce facilities for answering to the call of nature.
Management of the toilets has the years proved to be a lucrative business generating millions of shillings in a month. Police were forced to step in after a group of youth owing alliance to a city MP and an MCA tried to kick out a self-help group manning the lavatories. The take-over attempt proved futile.
It, however, underlined the importance of the washrooms - that some people were ready to spill blood to control them. The entire CBD has 17 public toilets serving hundreds of thousands on a daily basis. For a long or short call, one part with Sh10. Assuming that on average 2,000 people visit each toilet to either defecate or urinate; this would be Sh20,000, amounting to a total of Sh340,000 fetched from the 17 toilets on a single day.
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