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Hawkers have become a nuisance to formal businesses in Nairobi's CBD

A price tag on mitumba items on sale at Toi Market in Kibra, Nairobi, on June 9, 2022. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

Today, we take the unpopular path of calling out the chaotic scenes that this city has become. At the risk of sounding elitist, the bitter truth is that there is a limit for everything under the sun. This is if order and sanity has to be maintained. Even the scripture talks of our creator as being a God of order, not chaos.

There is no economic philosophy, Bottoms-Up or Tops-down, that can justify the city managers letting the country's capital degenerate into one big mad house. If there is one place that any person of reasonable temperament dreads to be in this city currently, then it is the Central Business District (CBD). This chaos have made it to headline news in the mainstream media.

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