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Fire razes stalls at Toi Market as Kibra MP pledges support for traders.
Traders at Toi Market woke to devastation in March after a pre-dawn fire ripped through a section of the sprawling second-hand market that borders Kibera, destroying stalls stocked with clothes, shoes and household goods. Many vendors said the value of what they lost could not yet be counted.
Kibra Member of Parliament Peter Orero visited the scene and pledged to work with the county and national agencies on both immediate relief and longer-term fire prevention. Traders, however, voiced a familiar frustration – that firefighters took too long to arrive, allowing the flames to spread through the tightly packed stalls.
The blaze is the latest in a run of fires to hit Toi, one of Nairobi's busiest mitumba markets, which suffered a major fire as recently as 2024. Traders are again calling for better water access, wider firebreaks between stalls and a permanent fire post nearby – practical measures they say would protect thousands of livelihoods that depend on the market every day.
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Traders at Toi Market woke to devastation in March after a pre-dawn fire ripped through a section of the sprawling second-hand market that borders Kibera, destroying stalls stocked with clothes, shoes and household goods. Many vendors said the value of what they lost could not yet be counted.
Kibra Member of Parliament Peter Orero visited the scene and pledged to work with the county and national agencies on both immediate relief and longer-term fire prevention. Traders, however, voiced a familiar frustration — that firefighters took too long to arrive, allowing the flames to spread through the tightly packed stalls.
The blaze is the latest in a run of fires to hit Toi, one of Nairobi’s busiest mitumba markets, which suffered a major fire as recently as 2024. Traders are again calling for better water access, wider firebreaks between stalls and a permanent fire post nearby — practical measures they say would protect thousands of livelihoods that depend on the market every day.
Source: The Star (16 March 2026) & Citizen Digital.
