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Daniel Mwangi, in his 70s, is a religious man but the backyard of his house in Jamhuri Estate in Nairobi is a litter of cigarette butts and alcohol cans.
Mwangi, a pensioner, would not have this worldly menace in his sight were it not for his truant neighbours forced onto him by some corrupt county officials who approved an illegal high-rise building that has its balconies right inside his compound.
When we visited he said we are lucky the place had been cleaned as we would have stumbled onto used condoms or stepped on broken alcohol glasses.
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