Cartels responsible for annual Gikomba fire?

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.

 


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.

 


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.

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