Rendering people homeless in the middle of a pandemic is heartless

But while we encourage recovery of all grabbed public land, we find the latest Ruai evictions reprehensible.

The government has once again done the unthinkable. It plugged its ears to public outcry and flattened scores of houses allegedly put up illegally on land belonging to Nairobi Water and Sewerage Company (NWSC) on Saturday night, leaving hundreds of people homeless.

We would like to crystal clear from the outset. There is nothing wrong with the government recovering what belongs to it. If the land in question had been grabbed, the government was in order to recover it, and use as originally intended --in this case to expand the sewerage plant.