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Mitu-Bell case has restored much needed faith in the Judiciary

Hardly one month since the start of the New Year, approximately 2,000 families have been forcefully evicted from their homes in Kenya. 

About 1,000 families have suffered this in Blue Jay Diani, another hundreds in Kisumu and Nairobi. The pattern is similar; forced eviction in the middle of the night, an unmasked “private developer”, ignoring of court orders, total destruction of homes, schools, hospitals and places of worship.

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