Temesi Mukani

Many of Nairobi’s residential estates have one or more strip clubs disguised as bars.

A recent survey by Haiya! revealed that residential estates within Nairobi’s Eastland’s, Lang’ata and Hurlingham are worst affected.

Many of the bars visited have hidden inner sections where patrons pay something extra to see women strip naked as they dance suggestively on table tops.

For as little as Ksh 100 a patron will have access to these shows at a local pub in Komarock, one of the residential estates in Nairobi’s Eastland’s area.

This emerging trend has infuriated parents whose children are quickly getting hooked on frequenting these hideouts.

“It is sad that the authorities have allowed strip clubs to operate deep within our residential estate. We are fast losing our children and men to these devil-dens,” lamented Njeri, a mother of a teenage boy in Komarock.

Strip clubs are a fairly new phenomenon in Nairobi, having been pioneered by a few clubs in downtown, but their popularity seems to be catching up fast in the city’s environs. This fast growth is partly attributed to the fact that stripping attracts more patrons to these clubs translating into more profits.

“Why should we allow this moral decadence to get to our doorsteps? How I wish for the days when Nairobi Provincial Commissioner would order such establishments closed,” Kamau, an elderly resident of Buruburu Phase IV estate told Haiya!

As Nairobi residents grapple with this new phenomenon, it remains to be seen whether the authorities will act to end the not so amusing turn of events.