{"id":12114,"date":"2023-10-27T08:13:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T08:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=12114"},"modified":"2023-10-27T08:13:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T08:13:06","slug":"most-kenyans-support-sakajas-hawkers-on-the-roads-ban-others-link-it-to-king-charles-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=12114","title":{"rendered":"Most Kenyans Support Sakaja\u2019s Hawkers On The Roads Ban, Others Link It To King Charles\u2019 Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja issued a tough ultimatum to city hawkers, essentially pushing them out of town and outlawing their roadside operations, Kenyans treated the decision differently, with many, surprisingly, supporting the move and others reading a little mischief in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking during a meeting on Wednesday, the county boss issued orders that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizen.digital\/news\/sakaja-bans-hawking-on-the-roads-in-nairobi-cbd-from-thursday-morning-n329995\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">no hawkers will be allowed to operate along lanes<\/a>&nbsp;connecting to Moi Avenue in the Nairobi Central Business District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He further proposed that the affected hawkers be given priority to operate along the back lanes and eke out a living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;From Tom Mboya coming up to Moi Avenue, we will have no hawking and street business there because we have a plan on that road where we receive billions from investors,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"936\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Sakaja-og_image-1.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Sakaja-og_image-1.webp 936w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Sakaja-og_image-1-480x323.webp 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 936px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja issued a tough ultimatum to city hawkers, essentially pushing them out of town and outlawing their roadside operations, Kenyans treated the decision differently, with many, surprisingly, supporting the move and others reading a little mischief in it. Speaking during a meeting on Wednesday, the county boss issued orders that&nbsp;no hawkers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Sakaja-og_image.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12117,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12114\/revisions\/12117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}