Chaka market traders protest move to eject them from their operation base
Businessman Peter Mukundi at Chaka market yesterday.
By Our Correspondent
Some traders operating at Chaka market in Kieni East Sub-County have protested a move to have them removed from their operations base.
The traders claim that some county officials, provincial administrators and aides of area Member of Parliament are the ones who have hatched a plot to have them moved out.
“We know who are behind our woes. Let them know we shall not accept what they are planning,” said one of the affected traders, Peter Mukundi.
He said the traders were opposed to a move them out from where they have been operating from since the market was opened nine months.
They said though they were being promised the market administrators wanted to upgrade their stalls, they had learnt that some people wanted to give out their spaces once they move out.
Addressing the media at the market, the traders said they will not allow outsiders to replace them.
A meeting scheduled for yesterday to address the issues failed to do so with the affected traders being told to wait for two weeks to have the issue resolved.
At the same time, another section of traders decried the substandard nature of workmanship in the market.
They noted that drainage was poor and the public service vehicle bay usually floods once it rains.
They called on the government to rein on the contractor to ensure that he carries out professional work.
“This market was set to be opened by President Uhuru Kenyatta early this year but the plans were shelved after it emerged the workmanship was poor,” a trader who sought anonymity disclosed.
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