Inside sour Kayole land deal pitting Sonko against billionaire Mike Maina

Demolished rental houses in Nyamavilla Estate Kayole, Nairobi. [Jonah Onyango/Standard]

On March 3, 2001, a former city politician led a group of the then ruling party officials to State House for a meeting whose outcome would have implications decades later.

Resolutions of that meeting are at the heart of a court battle pitting billionaire Mike Maina and the 700 victims of a demolition he ordered on a controversial parcel of land in Kayole, Nairobi.