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Karen residents complain as new building veers off original plan

By Jeckonia Otieno | 8yrs ago

The imposing buildings being put up by a developer near Hardy Shopping Centre in disregard of a court order stopping it. Photo: Jeckonia Otieno

NAIROBI, KENYA: Hosea Kiplagat has been supplying water to 22 of his neighbours in Hardy-Karen until recently when this arrangement was jolted.

One of his neighbours is putting up a project in the area and has sunk a borehole barely 50m from Kiplagat’s borehole, causing the water to turn murky.

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