Hawker's Child Locked Up

The Nairobi City Council is at the center of controversy after a viral video surfaced showing the child of a female hawker locked in a vehicle by county askaris.

The undated video, begins after the city inspectorate and revenue collection employees, commonly known as kanjos, had already confiscated the hawker's merchandise, seemingly for illegal hawking.

It shows the merchandise, along with the child, inside the county vehicle, though it remains unclear whether the kanjos actually placed the child in the vehicle.

The child can be seen crying and screaming for her mother during the incident which took place on Tom Mboya Street.

Similarly, the female hawker is seen screaming at the top of her lungs, desperately demanding the release of both her stock and the child.

Her screams attract a crowd of pedestrians who gather around the vehicle, refusing to let it move until the child is freed.