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Improve living conditions in informal settlements

The torching of homes in the Mathare slums last weekend was merely one of the incidents that contributes to making life intolerable in our shantytowns.

The revenge attacks by youths which left scores of slum dwellers homeless after 30 houses were torched by vigilantes was another manifestation that the police lost the fight to maintain law and order in informal settlements like Mathare a long time ago.

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