Traders are counting losses after midnight inferno razed down Toi Market in Nairobi

Traders at popular Toi market are counting losses after fire damaged the property amounting to millions of shillings.

 proprietors located at the open air market have told capital FM that the fire started at around midnight and was put off by Nairobi county fire fighters at around 4 am. ”All my properties have been reduced to the ground. We are counting millions of losses,“ said Wilson Oginga, a trader at Toi market.

It however remains unclear the cause of the midnight inferno that has reduced the popular market down into ashes. The local leadership led by area member of county assembly Davidson Gikwini have called on the National government to move with speed and give a helping hand to the affected traders.

The leaders have also taken a swipe at the Nairobi county assembly emergency response team blasting them over their delay to arrive at the scene of the fire in time. “We are calling upon the county government of Nairobi to take Kibra seriously and want a fire station at the show ground. We have enough space to build a fully-fledged fire station,” said Gikwini.

The area MCA observes that the fire could have been put off in time had the access roads leading to the market been opened up by the county government.

The leadership further alleged that the fire fighters sent by the county to put off the fire had no water in them. He has further alleged that there is a group of cartels who are relentless in ensuring that they grab the land in which the expansive Toi marker sits.