{"id":1681,"date":"2023-12-02T09:40:53","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T09:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tandaomedia.co.ke\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2023-12-02T09:40:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T09:40:55","slug":"gikomba-market-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tandaomedia.co.ke\/index.php\/2023\/12\/02\/gikomba-market-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Gikomba Market on fire."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The fire that is said to have started at around 2am in the morning ,traders lost their property of unknown value on Friday morning after a fire consumed part of Gikomba market in Nairobi at a very high rate.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"730\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/tandaomedia.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-2.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tandaomedia.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-2.png 730w, https:\/\/tandaomedia.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-2-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>So far few injuries were reported in the incident where the residents around the area were also trying to save their lives. The fire is said to start from  section 42 in Majengo, causing extensive and massive damage . As the fire reduced their valuable assets to ashes, the traders could not estimate the number off lose incurred  as traders in the affected area, reported losses running into millions of shillings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Located in Nairobi,Gikomba Market is the largest open-air market in the country, it has encountered recorded number of fires, the most recent being in September 2023, but the worst was in December last year when traders lost over Sh2 million worth of goods. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja however  had promised to build a fire station at the market to curb the recurring fires.The residence also urged the government to improve the infrustructure within the vicinity so as to allow the firefighters to easily access the areas affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some residents  had complained that land grabbers were causing problems and preventing this would-be solution. Gikomba as a public land the traders are aiming at protecting it at any cost from the land grabbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fire that is said to have started at around 2am in the morning ,traders lost their property<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.11 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gikomba Market on fire. - 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