This archive report was first published on 5 July 2020.
Published on July 5, 2020, a report by TIFA Research shed light on the perspectives of Nairobi's low-income earners living in Huruma, Kibera, Mathare, Korogocho, Mukuru kwa Njenga, and Kawangware.
According to the report, 79% of the respondents want the curfew to remain, but with reduced hours, to enable them continue improving their livelihoods.
While a significant majority of respondents, 84%, accept the government's justification for the curfew as a necessary measure to reduce the spread of the coronavirus, a minority of 12% say they do not know the reason for it.
Seventy-four percent of the respondents indicated that the curfew has had a negative impact on daily earnings, with another 63% saying the measure has seen police officers use excessive force to enforce.
Interestingly, about half of all respondents, 49%, claimed there is complete obedience to the curfew in their locality, while 5% admitted that there is no compliance at all where they reside.
A majority of 86% of the respondents further stated that they want the travel restrictions in and out of the Nairobi Metropolitan area to remain in place as well.
