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Families face eviction as Prison reclaims abandoned land

Lilian Okwaro outside her house in Nyalenda slums. She is worried that her property stands on land being claimed by the Prisons Department. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

The Prisons Department has given about 200 families three months to vacate land that forms part of the expansive Nyalenda slum.

The department claims it was allocated the land by the Government more than 50 years ago.

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