Court stops State from evicting over 1,000 Mathare slum dwellers

A woman washing clothes along the road at Mathare area. [Samson Wire. Standard].

Environment and Lands Court in Nairobi has barred the government from evicting more than 1,000 squatters from Mathare Mabatini village.

Justice Kossy Bor in her judgement against National Land Commission, the Attorney General, Samuel Ojowa, and Nairobi County ruled that the government should cancel any allocation to individuals and re-allocate the land on a communal basis to the slum dwellers.