Nairobi, April 22 -- Last Wednesday, hundreds of City Hall officers stormed the streets of Nairobi to crack down on an illegal parking network which denies the county government at least Sh300,000 revenue each day.

Tiras Njoroge, City Hall's county revenue administration chief officer, led the crackdown which followed a Nation story on the "parking boys" menace.

More than 500 vehicles were impounded in what was pegged as a new dawn intended to cure a cancer that has eaten at the capital for years.

The "parking boys" syndicate illegally profits from City Hall's designated parking spaces, with motorists sending money to its members instead of official county payment channels.

Its members also extort protection fees from motorists who ha...