Traders at the Gikomba market woke up to a sad morning on Saturday, December 18, after a fire razed down a section of the market.
Property of unestablished value went up in flames as firefighters from Nairobi County battled to put out the early morning inferno.
The Saturday fire comes just a fortnight after another fire razed down stalls at the market destroying property worth millions of shillings.
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The latest fire is the sixth that has occurred at the open air market this year even as detectives comb for clues to establish the actual cause of the fire outbreaks.
In February, a mysterious fire visited the open-air market and another one in August prompting the government to give orders for the installation of security cameras to help end frequent fires at the market.
This was after Interior PS Karanja Kibicho, NMS Director-General Mohammed Badi and Kamukunji MP Yusuf Hassan visited the section that had been razed by the inferno.
Two months later on October 19, 2021, another mysterious fire razed down several stalls in the market and the same incident occurred on November 8, 2021.
Seeking to solve the solution, Nairobi County Government and the national government resolved to build a new five-storey Gikomba market at a cost of Ksh3 billion to end all the fire incidences.
