By STEPHEN MUNYIRIMore by this AuthorAbout 3,000 traders in Karatina are faced with uncertainty and gloom after the Kenya Railways Corporation (KR) issued a five-day notice to vacate its land on which they have been conducting their business. The traders have been operating from the land reserved for KR for the past 30 years. NO SOLUTIONFollowing the latest notice, some of the traders who talked to the Nation expressed their fears they might lose their livelihoods because the Nyeri County government, which collects levies from them, appears to have no solution to the looming crisis. “We pay license fees to the county government but they are not showing us an alternative site from where to conduct our business. We don't know what will happen next as our livelihood is threatened and they should act quickly,” said Ms Ann Nyaruai, a clothes dealer.

Source: Daily Nation December 23, 2019 09:45 UTC