End of an era for famous Lwang’ni Beach 'hotels'

Margret Achieng, a trader at Lwang'ni beach in Kisumu sits at what used to be her hotel after bulldozers came calling at midnight, flattening their business premises over expansion of the port. [Denish Ochieng/ Standard]

Bulldozers rolled into Kisumu’s second largest lakeside destination — Lwang’ni Beach — on Tuesday night, bringing down popular fish eateries that had attracted visitors for decades.

Watchmen guarding a long line of lakeside food kiosks famous for fresh tilapia ran for their dear lives as the bulldozers reduced the aging structures — some put up in the early 1980s — to a heap of rubble. By 8am yesterday, Lwang’ni, which means house flies, was dead and buried with traders desperately trying to salvage whatever remained of their premises.