Karen Nyamu has urged Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja to provide an alternate location for hawkers displaced from the Nairobi CBD.
Senator Nyamu remarked during a Sunday service at ACK St Monica church in Dandora that despite efforts to make the capital cleaner, hawkers should not be treated disrespectfully or ignored.
"It is not incorrect. We also value order, but you can't drive hawkers away without providing them with an option. "We need to talk about this because if we don't, taxi drivers will be the next people targeted," she warned.
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"We want the government to protect its people."
She expressed similar thoughts about the country's ongoing land squabbles, including as the 1,000-acre land issue in Njiru, which has seen many people's homes bulldozed.
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The land, which belonged to the late politician Gerishon Kirima, has been a source of dispute in a legal struggle in which six cases have been brought regarding the land title.
"I am drafting a bill to compel the government to compensate such people who have gone the process of buying land. I will be at the frontline to talk with Kirima's family so that they get a truce and also help those living there," she said.
Weeks earlier, Nominated Nairobi senator Karen Nyamu said that Nairobi women will resort to unusual measures to compel policymakers to tunnel development to marginalized areas.
Speaking in the Senate on Wednesday in support of a bill tabled to advocate for an increase in funds for slums, the senator who is pushing for more funds for her county said that she will mobilize women in the county to strip naked in the streets if need be, for their plight to be heard.
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