Charge those who stood by as Kibera road reserve was taken

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Tension runs high in a section of Kibera days after residents were served notice to vacate land earmarked for a road reserve. Demolitions were set to begin last week, which did not go down well with residents whose houses were targeted in the demolition exercise; an inevitable exercise that seeks to pave way for the construction of the Ngong Road/ Kibera/Kiungu Karumba/ Langata link Road.

The initial demolitions in June rendered at least 400 families homeless; an occurrence that led Ken Okoth, Member of Parliament for Kibra, to call on the government to offer compensation to victims and resort to more humane ways of evicting the affected.