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Jogoo Road Furniture Market is destroyed in a suspicious fire, with traders blaming arsonists paving the way for affordable housing projects.

The stench of charred timber and lost livelihoods hangs heavy over Jogoo Road this morning. In a suspicious midnight inferno, the iconic furniture market has been reduced to ashes, sparking furious allegations of arson linked to a bitter dispute over government land earmarked for affordable housing.
Traders stood helpless as millions of shillings in stock—sofas, beds, and handcrafted timber—were consumed by the flames on Friday night. But this was no ordinary fire. Whispers on the ground point to a sinister motive: a scorched-earth policy to evict traders from land that the government claims is being illegally occupied.
The tragedy at Jogoo Road is a microcosm of a wider battle for Nairobi's soul.
As investigators sift through the debris, the anger is palpable. "They want the land, not the people," one trader cried out. The government's push for development is colliding violently with the informal economy. If this was indeed arson, it is a crime not just against property, but against the struggling heart of the city's workforce.
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