Scavengers raid estates as demolition dust settles

Demolished rental houses in Nyamavilla estate in Kayole, Nairobi. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

For more than two decades Dennis Odhiambo worked hard to feather his nest in the belief that he would have some respite in old age.

Just a day to Christmas, it has dawned on Mr Odhiambo that all he was doing in his years of sweat and toil was building castles in the air using the concrete and twisted metal that now lie before his feet, forming the landscape of what has come to represent a wasteland of his dreams.