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Nairobi business community plans protest as over 700 containers held at port

Traders and hawkers at Gikomba Market continue with their daily normal business. [David Gichuru, Standard]

The revolution by small-scale traders that birthed the Hustler Movement and ultimately turned the tide against former President Uhuru Kenyatta and Azimio la Umoja coalition in Nairobi and Mt Kenya region is now haunting President William Ruto's administration.

Members of the Nairobi Business Community (NBC) are up in arms over what they term as "choking punitive taxes" from the administration - one that rode to power on the back of small and medium enterprise traders christened hustlers.

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