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Scrapping metal business will save our infrastructure

Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero has finally done what should have been done long time ago. He has banned trade in scrap metal, a booming but very hurtful business.

Although there is fundamentally nothing wrong with the business, which supposedly encourages recycling, money-hungry vandals and businesspeople have been misbehaving by stripping the city of anything and everything metallic.

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