Private garbage collectors on Thursday protested against the division of the city into nine franchise zones saying it is a scheme to lock them out of business. The more than 50 waste collectors, under the umbrella of the Waste and Environment Management Association of Kenya (Wemak), blocked a section of Uhuru highway, Kenyatta avenue and City Hall way as they marched to City Hall. They also lined their trucks up. The nine zones into which the county government of Nairobi has divided the city will each be managed by a contractor who will be the one to take the waste to the Dandora dumpsite...
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