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Tenants suffer under hands of house cartels

Emily Wairimu shows ownership documents of a house she owned in Kivumbini but lost it to a cartel that illegally changed the ownership. [Photo: Harun Wathari/Standard].

Cases of people losing houses that previously belonged to the defunt Nakuru Municipal Council in Kivumbini and Flamingo Estates to cartels are growing everyday.

Esther Wairimu who lost her husband two years ago suffered at the hands of a cartel that renders their targets homeless and allocates the houses to new occupants who pay them.

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