Kongowea open air market is arguably the largest of its type in the East African region. Truckloads of farm produce mainly food products from all over the region offload their wares here and rush back to deliver more goods. All major hotels and eateries in the city procure their food items from this market. Layton Harris owned one of the largest grocery stores located in the market. With a turnover of almost one thousand customers every day, he had hired four workers to help in handling the heavy traffic but still felt he needed more staff to take care of cheeky clients who of late had started pilfering his goods unnoticed; so it was like a Godsend moment when that hot Monday morning a handsome middle-aged man walked into the facility and inquired from Harris if there was a vacant position
