We built our homes with blood, sweat and tears, Langata residents say

Benda Kithaka outside her house in Forest Edge View estate Langata, Nairobi. [Elvis Ogina/Standard]

David Watene is a man of few words. This is expected of an economist mostly proficient in the language of numbers.

In his heydays, he travelled around the world to negotiate with various financial institutions on behalf of the Government, his long-time employer, and where he rose to the level of an undersecretary at the National Treasury.