Nairobi slum dwellers violently chase road officials on demolition mission

Residents of Deep Sea slum in Parklands demonstrate over Kenya Urban Roads Authority to demolish their structures. KURA was however overwhelmed by the residents and left but vowed to return. PHOTO: FIDELIS KABUNYI

KENYA: Dwellers of a Nairobi slum violently chased away roads officials who had gone to demolish structures in the area.

Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA) workers who had come with two Lorries and a tractor to destroy iron sheet structures that they claim occupy a road reserve were forced to flee when the residents of Deep Sea slums in Westlands descended on them with stones and threatened to injure them if they do not leave immediately.