{"id":73811,"date":"2024-08-03T15:09:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T15:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/08\/03\/sakaja-says-city-hall-to-support-those-affected-by-toi-market-fire\/"},"modified":"2024-08-03T15:09:02","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T15:09:02","slug":"sakaja-says-city-hall-to-support-those-affected-by-toi-market-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/sakaja-says-city-hall-to-support-those-affected-by-toi-market-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Sakaja says City Hall to support those affected by Toi Market fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 3 \u2013 Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja now says City Hall will support over 2,000 traders affected by the Toi Market fire where 4 people were killed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a statement, while condoling with those affected the Governor indicated that nothing will stop the county leadership from supporting its people.<\/p>\n<p>His statement comes shortly after he was pelted with stones by angry traders as he visited Toi Market in Kibra where four people died in a dawn blaze that razed structures there.<\/p>\n<p>Sakaja had visited the scene when he was unceremoniously welcomed by the residents who pelted stones at him prompting him to flee.<\/p>\n<p>He was escorted from the scene by members of his security who shielded him as stones were being thrown at them.<\/p>\n<p>The early morning blaze affected affected over 2,000 traders with preliminary investigations indicating an electrical fault as the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Fire fighters from Nairobi County Government arrived hours later as the fire spread fast and helped to control it.<\/p>\n<p>The market is popular with among others foodstuffs and second hand clothes.<\/p>\n<p>In June last year, the entire market was razed down in a tragic incident and there have been calls to find a solution to such incidents.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 3 \u2013 Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja now says City Hall will support over 2,000 traders affected by the Toi Market fire where 4 people were killed. In a statement, while condoling with those affected the Governor indicated that nothing will stop the county leadership from supporting its people. His statement comes shortly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}