Sakaja pelted with stones after visiting Toi market following fire incident

Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja was on Saturday afternoon pelted with stones when he made a visit to the scene of an early morning fire incident at Toi market.

The dawn inferno, whose cause is yet to be established, left four people dead and traders counting huge losses.

Sakaja, in a video making rounds online, can be seen surrounded by his bodyguards who formed a protective shield around him while stones aimed at his head flew in the air.

As the flurry of stones became too unbearable, the security team was forced to fire in the air to disperse the angry crowd.

Some of the affected traders who spoke to Citizen Digital expressed anger at the county boss saying they want repairs done at the market once and for all.

They accused Governor Sakaja of visiting the market when it burned last year and making a long list of promises to fix it, but failed to do so.

The traders also criticized the Governor over the slow response time of the county fire response team, saying the inferno could’ve been stopped early enough hence the deaths prevented.

Kibera Member of Parliament Peter Orero and his Embakasi East counterpart Babu Owino also visited the traders earlier on and engaged them.