Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago held a consultative meeting at the City Abattoir along Port Bell Road where he addressed hundreds of traders and slaughter house workers.
The visit by Lord Mayor at the City Abattoir comes after the traders complained about the exorbitant taxes that were being levied on them that resulted into protests where some of them were assaulted.
After a tour of the facility Lord Mayor Lukwago said, KCCA is in the process of regularizing the operations of the Abbatoir and setting up of slaughter fees as per Section 6 of Local Governments (KCC) Meat Ordinance 2006.
Lord Mayor Lukwago said that the measures are to be undertaken and the traders’ input is important in guiding council in setting up the fees.
He noted that the Abbatoir is not actually a market as per the legal interpretation of KCCA Director of legal services, and as such the new Markets Act may not apply.
He called on traders and their leadership to be firm and stand up against illegal exploitive tendencies of cartels that from time to time purport to take over the control of the Abbatoir and collect money without any accountability.
Lord Mayor Lukwago urged them to also develop futuristic plans to transform the Abattoir in to a modern facility.
The Deputy Lord Mayor Nyanjura Doreen who ac accompanied Lukwago thanked the traders for taking steps to resolve the incessant Leadership wrangles in the Abattoir and added that without leadership they will even fail to take care of the very basics like Water and electricity bills to the facility.
After the consultative meeting the traders agreed to submit their views through written memorandum to the Lord Mayor office for guidance and action.