An unnamed food vending local restaurant along Nairobi’s Mfangano lane that has been selling dirty and spoiled food was yesterday raided and exposed due the malpractice by a team from the Nairobi City County government led by the Chief Officer in charge of the Environment docket Geoffrey Mosiria.
Mosiria, who was leading a county team in a clean up exercise within the Nairobi central business district inspected the restaurant exposing rotten food and soups which were being prepared in filthy and dingy kitchen ready to be sold to unsuspecting customers in Nairobi.
During the raid, which has since been circulated in Mosiria’s TikTok social media platform, the staff at the backstreet hotel were at pains to explain their reason behind preparing food meant for human consumption in un-healthy kitchen conditions.
Mosiria vowed to dispatch a team from the city Inspectorate’s health department to the hotel for a thorough check up and possible closure of the business which is a health hazard to its customers.
“This hotel is selling rotten food. Here we have uncovered rotten meat and this is soup which is emitting a very foul filthy smell yet the dirty food is sold to unsuspecting customers in the CBD,” Mosiria fumed.
“We were just doing clean up along the street on Mfangano lane and our attention was drawn from a foul smell coming from this hotel which has no business name. What we are swing here is in imaginable people selling rotten food to the people of Nairobi and posing a danger to their health. I am going to sent a team from the health department to do an inspection here because we cannot allow this to happen under our watch,” Mosiria said.
Mosiria ordered the hotel to clean up their kitchen and desist from selling rotten food to the people of Nairobi.
In trying to put across an explanation, the women in charge of the kitchen were at pains to absolve themselves from blame which is blatant as the county government officers continued with the investigation around all corners of the hotel, seemingly of low prices.
This is not the first time that Mosiria has exposed food sellers in Nairobi who are in the business of selling dirty food to their unsuspecting customers. Last year, Mosiria raided areas where kebabs, smokies and boiled eggs are prepared in dingy backstreet kitchens as well as confronting vendors who were caught storing their egg vending trolleys inside a public toilet.
