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Some of the Kajiado residents, both the aged and youths. PHOTO BY NANJINIA WAMUSWA
Lekishon Sankara sits on an old bench overlooking the Nairobi-Namanga road, outside a shop at Bissil shopping centre in Kajiado County. Vehicles zooming past do not seem to startle him out of his deep continuous thoughts.
The tired and weary looking 65-year-old man was once wealthy with over 2,000 livestock and 300 acres of land. Today, he is left with only 20 goats, and without any piece of land.
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