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Uproar over influx of casual labourers in Eastleigh

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Published 20 November 2018

Domestic workers sitting outside a block of flats, where they wait for work from wealthier residents in Eastleigh Nairobi, Kenya. 2016

Kenyan women doing casual jobs in Nairobi’s Eastleigh are lamenting the influx of a foreign labourers from Uganda and Kakuma refugee camps.

Jane Atieno one of the casual labourers says the foreigners have made business go down following their low rate charges.

Speaking to Ghetto Radio News Atieno says some of the foreigners accept payment as low as 100 shillings for a whole day’s work making them lose market.

Atieno is also lamenting bad treatment by the Eastleigh employers like being made to undertake strange and inhumane tasks like washing snakes and dead bodies.