Drama at simmers Nairobi after county government askaris stormed in the premises over land rates

PHOTO courtesy of Nairobi News

It was drama at a popular entertainment joint at the city centre on Thursday morning after the County government Askaris stormed In demanding the business to be closed down due to unpaid land rates.

The management of simmers pub and restaurant tried their best to negotiate their way out of the embarrassing situation and they were allowed to resume to their normal operations after they wrote two cheques amounting to Ksh 1.1 Million which was more than half of the amount that was in arrears.

The 10am incident attracted a crowd of curious Kenyans wanting to see what was going on. The staff of the business altered verbal abuses both to the media and the Askaris.

Hatujali hata mkituharibia jina, hiyo gazette tutafunga nayo nyama (the management doesn’t mind what you write, we shall use those newspapers to wrap meat,” one of the senior employees at the restaurant repeatedly told journalists who were covering the operation.

Another employee at the venue physically assaulted a journalist before attempting to grab his camera.