A section of Kisumu residents have today Wednesday, January 31, staged demonstrations in the city's Central Business District (CBD) over stall demolitions by the county government.
Marching with leaves and placards, the traders lit tyres on the roads, opposing the move by the county government manager, Abala Wanga.
This was after bulldozers commissioned by the county government brought down the traders' stalls.
Disrupting traffic along the major highways, the protestants called for immediate action after their daily source of income had been paralysed.
Some, in an act of defiance, opted to walk around in bath towels around their waist highlighting their frustrations with the recent developments in the city.
Marching in hundreds, the enraged traders blocked roads as they called for a new election in the county management leadership.
Responding to the issue, the county manager Abala Wanga, insisted that the demolitions were long overdue and were decided by the government decisions to set up a drainage system in the affected areas.
Abala also advocated for alternative ways to solve the protester's grievances rather than resorting to violence.
This demolition was carried out just a week after the mass took to the streets over recent developments within the city.
Kisumu traders alleged that the County government had set in motion plans to demolish a primary school in the CBD to set up restaurants and hotels.
"We will not agree to moving the bus park to Molem. We will not agree with the demolition of Nyamlori. A whole primary school in Kisumu (to be demolished) is where hotels are being built," the Kisumu Bus stage manager stated on Wednesday, January 24.
With this, they clarified that a petition was already drafted and it was yet to be presented to the Kisumu County National Assembly on a date they did not disclose.
And until their pleas are heard, the protesters have vowed not to pay taxes.
