Offences

Nairobi, Wednesday  July 23rd , 2014 KNA by Edwin and Albert.

Minor offences lead to court cases

Several Nairobians have been charged with minor offences at city hall court, Nairobi.

A man was charged selling oranges along the streets of Thika Road and throwing litter everywhere. Mr. John Kamau was arraigned before the magistrate and was fined ksh. 3000 for both offences.

At the same courts, several people were charged with numerous offences from selling porridge without a license, Matatus picking passengers along the street, working without a health certificate, loitering on the streets at odd hours of the night, operating a barbershop without a licence, hawking in town and operating in a restaurant without medical certificate.

By laws are found under the local government act of 2007. The bylaws are classified into different offences and they are: food and sanitation where selling or hawking is done without a medical certificate, licensing ;operating a business without a license from the city council, market and trade places; disturbance of business and not paying of cess tax

In the bylaws they indicate imprisonment for the minor offences a minimum of one month and penalty of 2000/=. Physical planning indicates that building with approved plans and changing residential areas to commercial areas leads to imprisonment of 6 months or a fine of 100,000/=

The public health act deals with premises where summons are issued to check areas to see if the standards required are met. James Ochieng, law clerk at the court said, “If one is ordered to appear before the court and fails to, then a warrant of arrest is issued and if he or she abides there are summons.”

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