Woodley estate leadership fear for their lives after goons loot, torch homes

Woodley Residents Welfare Society former chairman Sam Gachago (right) and his deputy David Sosah address the Press in Woodley estate, Nairobi. [File, Standard]

Leaders of the Woodley Estate Residents Association say they are now living in fear following a spate of violent attacks allegedly carried out by goons acting at the command of Nairobi County Government officials.

Sam Gachago, chairman of the Woodley Development Initiative, said his house was raided twice in June by about 100 armed men who looted property and destroyed the structure in what he described as an escalation of intimidation against residents resisting eviction.