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Mosiria calls for crackdown on street families exploiting public sympathy

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Mosiria calls for crackdown on street families exploiting public sympathy
Nairobi City County Chief Officer for Environment Geoffrey Mosiria engaging a woman on the streets of Nairobi on Friday, June 13, 2025. PHOTO/@HonMosiria/X

Nairobi City County Chief Officer for Environment Geoffrey Mosiria has called for a crackdown on street families who have been using children to exploit public sympathy.

Taking to his official X account on the night of Friday, June 13, 2025, Mosiria narrated how he had encountered a woman on the street with her two children, who claimed that she had been abandoned by her husband.

Out of goodwill, Mosiria says he offered to help the woman by paying for the bus fare to her rural home in Kakamega.

Mosiria on the woman’s action

He says well-wishers also helped by shopping for the woman who was escorted to the bus stage, but soon after Mosiria and his team left, the woman refused to board the matatu and asked for the fare refund from the driver.

The woman is said to have run away when the driver called Mosiria to inform him about what had transpired.

“It’s unfortunate. Today, I met a woman on the street with her two children. When I asked what she was doing there, she told me that her husband had run away and left her with nothing. With no other option, she sought refuge on the streets. I offered to take her home, and even some well-wishers helped her with shopping to get her started back in Kakamega, where she said she was from,” Mosiria stated.

“I paid KSh 1,600 for her transport and arranged with the driver to give her KSh 500 as pocket money upon arrival. However, once she boarded the matatu, she refused to travel and instead asked the driver to refund her KSh 500 out of the fare I had paid. When the driver called me to inform me, she ran away.”

Crackdown

Following the incident, Mosiria has suggested that a crackdown should be launched to get such people out of the Nairobi streets.

According to him, those willing to go back to their rural homes should be supported, but those not willing must be compelled to leave.

“This clearly shows that some of the women begging on the streets know exactly what they are doing, and many have no intention of changing their situation. Some even go as far as hiring children to elicit sympathy and get help from the public. It’s time we remove them from our streets. Those willing to go back home should be supported, but those who are not willing must be compelled to leave. We must act to protect the children who are being used and exposed to dangerous conditions in the streets,” he wrote on X.

A screenshot of Geoffrey Mosiria’s statement. PHOTO/Screengrab by K24 Digital from a statement shared on X by @HonMosiria

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