Ruto, Gachagua's U-turn on demolitions

A woman weeps as her house is levelled during the demolition of houses erected on East African Portland Cement land, October 14, 2023. [Peterson Githaiga, Standard]

When 5,000 families were evicted from Kariobangi, Nairobi, at the height of Covid-19 pandemic, there was political furore.

Then Deputy President, William Ruto and his allies empathized with the families insisting that the government could have handled the situation better instead of rendering families homeless during the rainy season.