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Over 400 city home owners face eviction

A view of the Mavoko 7340/34 block that is in dispute between original owner and buyers. [Jenipher Wachie, Standard]

A major row has erupted in a city housing estate where an estimated 400 homeowners are on the brink of being rendered homeless following a land ownership row.

The ownership row over the 20 acres has heightened tension in Githunguri in Utawala, Nairobi, where home owners yesterday claimed bands of armed gangs had been dispatched to the area to demolish fences and incomplete houses.

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