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Demolishing Njiru residents’ homes amid pandemic wrong

Millicent Achieng Muga with her children watch helplessly when the bulldozers demolished their houses in Njiru quarry, Nairobi on April 23, 2021 [Elvis Ogina,Standard]

The government has again demonstrated impunity by demolishing the homes of more than 5,000 Njiru residents in Nairobi amid strict Covid-19 lockdown. 

The government has decided to give a deaf ear to a statement issued on May 11, 2020 through the Cabinet Secretary for Interior, promising Kenyans and the global community that “until we are done with Covid-19 challenges, we should not have forcible evictions happening”.

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