Heartbreak as families left homeless in Kwale

Mbotela Charcoal Dealers when they faced eviction from a private developer at Mbotela estate, Nairobi. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

Hundreds of families, many of them women and children at Gazi village in Kwale County on Monday, watched helplessly as their homes were reduced to rubble under the watch of police officers.

The residents said the very places they had known to be their home had been grabbed by well-connected people leaving them destitute.