Fires in Gikomba are somewhat annual cultural events in the country. Another inferno broke out at the expansive Gikomba Market in Nairobi destroying properties of unknown value.
The latest fire incident broke out at around 9pm on Wednesday, February 6. Nairobi firefighters arrived on time and contained it before it spread to other parts of the market.
SOME OF Kenya’s most notorious TAX EVADERS and TERRORISM SYMPATHIZERS (some with ILLEGALLY OBTAINED KE National IDs and Work Permits) with the support of the INCOMPETENT Kenyan Gov’t, are hell-bent on relocating traders from Gikomba to expand their Eastleigh empires #GikombaFire https://t.co/gMrzmHAH6C
— Ng’ang’a Samuel (@NgangaTheSamuel) February 7, 2019
GIKOMBA FIRES !
1. March 2012
2. March 2014,
3. October 2014
4. June 2015
5. October 2017
6. June 2018.
7. February 2019They want to grab land and put up shopping complexes like they did with Eastleigh public market.
This FIRES are NEVER accidental#GikombaFire#JKLive
— Amedo Shair (@AmedoShair) February 6, 2019
Gikomba market is the country’s largest secondhand clothes market and home to over 40,000 traders. It has sadly had it’s share in unexplainable fires having become something like a ritual breaking out at least once every year putting so many traders out of business. Last night’s inferno is the 8th such incident in just 5 years.
#GikombaFire is happening annually, the Questions are; WHO is involved in this and WHY?
I really feel for those who depend on businesses over there.
It’s so SAD, I feel sorry.— Wayne Brian (@waynebrian7) February 7, 2019
Kenyan Land Cartels Script
Step 1. Identify public market land sections in Gĩkomba.
Step 2. Start a fire at night.
Step 3. Government moves in to fence the burnt patch of land.
Step 4. A tender for malls & flats is issued.
Step 5. Title Deed gets a new owner. #GikombaFire
— Michael The Digital Nomad ?? (@MichaelMburu_) February 7, 2019
The cause of the incident, like many other’s before it, could not be immediately established. Despite no injuries having been reported, Kenyans are outraged and have taken up to twitter to demand for answers and intervention from the government.