The battle for open spaces

 

A court in Nyayo Estate in Embakasi, Nairobi, where residents say they could lose open spaces to a Phase Six infill project. The estate is one of the biggest and best managed gated communities. [File, Standard]

 “If we blink even once, all these public spaces will be gone,” Oscar Beuttah, the vice chairman of Ngei Two Langata Resident Association, tells me during an afternoon drive in the estate.