How estates have become an eyesore in Nairobi's upmarket housing

Part of residential property in Lavington, Nairobi allocated to retirees of Telkom Kenya under Teleposta Pension Scheme (PHOTO: David Njaaga)

At the heart of Nairobi’s leafy suburbs of Kilimani, Kileleshwa and Upperhill stand box-shaped old apartment blocks housing anxious pensioners or their offspring.

For 17 years, the eight occupants of the 20 houses on Kangundo Road, Kileleshwa, belonging to Telposta Pension Scheme have been fighting off eviction. The outclassed houses sit next to Oloitoktok Road – one of Kileleshwa’s main arteries.