Some of the known leaders of these self-help groups have paid the ultimate price of death and investigations into their cold-blood murders remain unresolved up to date.
David Odongo Mukabana aka Dosh, Jared Achok alias Patron, Simon Rayboy Mwangi aka Kamahuha and Stephen Mugo Mutothori were known barons in Embakasi, which had large swathes of idle private and public land. They were all felled gangland style.