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Kioko Mutua stands next to his 'house'. He is taller than the house that he squeezes self in to sleep.
For more than four decades, they have lived in squalor. They have been abandoned by successive governments and short-changed by leaders, with empty promises of finding them alternative land.
The more than 2,000 squatters in Kibwezi West in Makueni County have for years lived in shanties, adults having to share makeshift beds with their children.
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