Traders at the Dagoretti Market in Nairobi on Monday halted operations and took to the streets to demonstrate the infiltration of drug dealers causing an uptick in insecurity in the area.
While burning bonfires on the roads of the busy market, the business owners called for the legal intervention of the government to drive the peddlers out of the streets.
They relayed how this infiltration had led the police officers to drag their feet when intervening in violent or criminal activity, presuming everyone involved was a drug dealer or addict.
One of the criminal activities they pointed out was thieves scouring the market armed with machetes in search of dealers to rob them, an activity that put legitimate vendors in danger.
