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They used and dumped us, Mau evictees claim

Houses that were flattened in Mau at dawn on Sunday. Inset left: A family flees the area on a motorcycle. Inset right: Police officers on patrol. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

Destroyed. Flattened. This best describes what was once Sierra Leone, a shopping centre in the Mau Forest Complex.

The centre is no more after police officers descended on it at about 5am yesterday and demolished all the structures.

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