Sugarcane transporters and animal herders will have to rethink their movements within Kisumu City as authorities rein them in.
Grazing animals within Kisumu city or animals found loitering within the Central Business District (CBD) will now attract a fine of Ksh1,000 as the authorities move fast to promote cleanliness in the city.
Cane transporters found spilling sugarcane on the tarmac road within Kisumu City while hauling cane to the sugar factories will part with a Ksh10,000 fine to help clean the spilt dirt
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Again, hawkers effective this month, have also been banned from vending goods or assorted foodstuffs in the streets ways within Kisumu City Municipality.
The new directives by the City manager Abala Wanga take effect immediately and the city council askaris have been mandated to enforce the new orders in strict adherence to the local and city authorities by laws established.
"We want to make Kisumu city and its environs the most habitable and clean place to attract more tourists to our city," Wanga said.
Wanga said this decision has been taken to enable traders to move into the now completed Uhuru Business Park and 12 other modern markets within the City now up and running but deficient of traders to occupy them.
The Uhuru business park was the brainchild of former President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga.
The Ksh450 million business park is complete but not yet fully occupied.
It was envisioned to be a one-stop shop for all consumer goods and services.
This is what Wanga now wants the traders to comply with.
Wanga said although the City management has changed its strategies and will not be confiscating goods from vendors, those failing to adhere to the ban will face arrests and heavy fines imposed on them.
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Speaking during a meeting with the City inspectorate officials, Wanga also warned those keeping livestock in the city residential estates again, that animals found loitering within the City will be confiscated and their owners fined.
He told the inspectorate team to conduct regular beat patrols along the Airport road to stop animals from destroying tree seedlings planted along the Airport's Northern Transport Corridor as part of the city greening initiative program to improve its aesthetic value.
The recently established Kisumu city's traffic marshalls will also help control of traffic flow and order within and round all the roads entering and exiting the CBD bounds.
"To this extent, the Kamas and Ahero Mowuok stages will be dismantled to help bring traffic sanity and ease the traffic flow," Wanga said.
Wanga also announced that the street families menace in the CBD will be handled by January 15 this year, by moving them to orphanage homes that dot the city habitat structural settings.
This will be done in areas around Oile and Taifa public parks, where street urchins live.
Wanga said the street families have become a security risk to those planning to use the parks for recreational activities and picnics.
The City Manager asked traders who have placed their stalls on top of drainages to remove them to improve sanity.
This also applies to traders running stalls outside the Jubilee market and the bus park without approvals.
He advised Kibuye traders who are utilizing the space meant for the second phase of construction work of the market to only put up wooden stalls so that by June this year when work starts they don't obstruct the process.
